Sunday People

I’m risking jail to treat my brain tumour with cannabis oil BEAUTY QUEEN KERRI IS SNUBBING CHEMO

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THC oil I feel ill. It’s lowering my already super-low blood pressure and I have brain fog, dizziness, reduced sympatheti­c nervous system, weakness and an increased heart rate – normal symptoms, I’m told.

“I’m praying my body adapts as I have to up my daily dosage nearly 10 times if I’m going to get rid of cancer.

“I’d take feeling like this over chemo and radiothera­py any day. It’s my only hope of surviving.”

Before cancer, Kerri led a glamorous lifestyle mingling with the stars. She posed for Playboy, became a Playboy bunny and lived the high life at Hugh Hefner’s LA mansion. She was also a movie body double for Megan Fox and won a raft of beauty titles – including versions of Miss UK. But cancer has played havoc with her life. The People told in 2014 how, after surgery, Kerri no longer enjoyed parties. She became an introvert, preferring nights in.

Doctors said she suffered bizarre mental side-effects which can affect brain surgery patients.

Scans later came up clear and her confident personalit­y returned.

Kerri took up modelling again and did martial arts, rallying and stunt work. She raises funds for Brain Tumour Research – and has run the London Marathon. But a charity trek to Everest base camp is on hold.

Kerri is also taking advice from Callie Blackwell, who gave her 12-year-old son illegal cannabis after he was given days to live. He recovered and is now 18 and in remission from cancer. Justin Stebbing, Professor of Cancer Medicine and Oncology at Imperial College London, said: “Patients refuse chemo for all sorts of reasons – a decision I’d respect – but to say cannabis oils could help prolong survival of brain cancer would be a push. Cannabis does have painkillin­g effects but it doesn’t actually have any anti-cancer propertie s.” Cancer Research UK declined to comment on Kerri’s case. But their website says: “There isn’t enough reliable evidence to prove cannabis can effectivel­y treat cancer.”

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