I’ve got something, not a man... how Victoria revealed cancer
VICTORIA Wood secretly battled cancer four years before her death in 2016, an official biography reveals.
Let’s Do It tells how the comedy legend went through almost a year of treatment, telling only close family and friends.
She described the initial treatment as “effing boring”, adding: “I don’t want rumours spreading that I’m at death’s door.” And when she told friends, the divorced mother of two said: “I’ve got something but it’s not a man.” Her daughter Grace, 32, said: “She shared what she had to, but given the choice I think she’d have shared absolutely none of it.”
Victoria, who died aged 62, had preferred to go to hospital appointments alone. She told a friend: “I can’t be bothered to put a good face on it and be jolly.”
After a year of care, she made a documentary about tea. At the time, she said: “I feel I missed the last 12 months of my life with so many hospital palavers. It meant going to China and India and getting out of the house.”
Let’s Do It, by Jasper Rees, out now from Trapeze, £ 20