Married at First Sight star Mel Schilling has given an update on her gruelling cancer battle, revealing that it is “getting hard” to fight.
The beloved Aussie star has bravely opened up about her ongoing struggle with stage three colon cancer.
“It’s getting tough now,” she told UK newspaper The Mirror. “I’m about halfway through and it’s getting hard. Feeling fatigued and nauseous is a bigger part of my everyday life. It feels like I’m hungover or pregnant every day, which is not fun.
The MAFS star recently relocated to the UK with her husband, Gareth, 51, and her daughter, where she’s busy been battling the disease while settling into her new life.
“In true ‘me’ fashion, the day we moved was the day I started chemotherapy. I don’t do things by halves. It’s been a tricky time as I’ve been adjusting to going through that and moving house. But Gareth has been doing most of the move so I’m very lucky he’s happy to pick up the slack.”
Schilling went on to share that she first noticed something was horribly wrong at the end of 2023, when her body started to react in ways it hadn’t previously.
“The last quarter of 2023, I was in Australia filming MAFS and there was a crossover with filming in the UK so I had to fly back and forth. That was hard because it’s a long flight, so you’ve got the tiredness and the jet lag and I’m 52! My body was complaining about all the long-haul flights and I thought that’s all it was,” she explained.
“My digestive system packed to a halt and I started having stomach pain. I wasn’t paying attention to my body because I was so busy. I’m a big foodie and I noticed something was really wrong when I couldn’t eat anything or even hold down a cup of tea.
The relationship coach, who stars on both the UK and Australian versions of MAFS, began to lose weight, and quickly realised something “serious” was amiss. However, she “never thought” it would be something as scary as cancer.
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“Once I got home, I realised I hadn’t eaten anything in around a week and I hadn’t been to the toilet in three weeks. I’d lost over a stone in weight and I was on a liquid diet by this point. I wasn’t even aware of how much I had lost, so things were serious. But I never thought it would be cancer.”
She added: “As horrible as it has been, and it is, let’s not sugar-coat it a tough call, there is some sense of purpose, I guess. I’ve realised that I do have a platform and while it’s lots of fun to use it for entertainment purposes, I also get to use it to raise awareness.
“Since I’ve been diagnosed I’ve connected with a lot of charities and I’ve learnt so much.”
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