BECAUSE OF MY PLIGHT SAYS BRAIN CANCER SON Guilt of Corrie Jack’s son over star’s death

straight back to the UK but we didn’t and he died the night before we were due to fly back.

“I remember saying to him, ‘We are going home tomorrow, Dad, we will get you to hospital’ and he said to me, ‘That’s right son I am going home,’ and he winked at me.

“I now know he meant going home upstairs.”

Carl believes his father has never left him but he misses the daily banter.

He says: “I miss the chance to have fun with him and the regular conversations because he was so quickwitted and funny.

“He had some brilliant sayings and put-downs – ‘Tears through a glass eye’ was one of his favourites when he thought somebody was becoming too maudlin’.”

Carl puts his own remarkable survival down to fighting spirit.

The love and support of wife Sandra and sons Matthew and Kurt has also been vital. He has also embraced a range of treatment including radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery.

And he has even had chemo drugs implanted into his skull to combat the tumour directly.

Alternative medicine – including cannabis oil – has been key too.

His healthcare plan is largely down to the work of his late father who made his mission to research how Carl could best live with his condition.

Angry

After quitting Corrie one of Bill’s first calls was to This Morning TV Doctor Chris Steele.

He advised Bill to get in touch with a Manchester-based herbalist called Dennis Gorman.

Dennis has provided Carl with supplements which he feels have helped battle the symptoms of his illness.

But in May came news which devastated him and his family again.

“They found a second tumour,” Carl reveals. “They thought it was benign at first. But it’s not. And it’s growing.” It has led to him being hit by dizzy spells, short-term memory loss and sickness.

Carl also had his Motability car withdrawn following a Department of Works and Pensions review.

Officials say that because he can walk 200 yards down the road he shouldn’t have a Government car.

Carl says: “I am very angrygry not just for myself, but for all the otherher families they do this to.

“What they are doing iss isolating people, making them prisoners.oners.

“We cannot afford a carr because Sandra has had to come outt of work to look after me 24 hours a day.

“I have seizures, I have little balance, so I am constantly falling ling over.”

But Carl has vowed not t to let this decision or the second tumour umour defeat him.

“I told my dad eight years ago, ‘ I am going nowhere’,” he says.

“I have got too many people and too much to live for. Dad looked at me and said, ‘We are lions, son’.”

Bill used his celebrity to champion research into brain cancers, becoming patron for Brain Tumour Research.