Tennis icon Martina Navratilova has opened up on her “seven months of hell” earlier than being declared cancer-free final month.
The nine-time Wimbledon singles champion was current at SW19 all through the match and loved Carlos Alcaraz’s closing win from the Royal Field.
She spoke to Good Morning Britain on Monday to debate her highway to restoration after breast and throat most cancers left her with “seven months of hell, emotionally and bodily.”
She praised her spouse Julia Lemigova who “was wonderful,” Navratilova stated. “Serving to me all through the remedy. Notably in New York with the seven weeks of proton.
“So I used to be identified early December and I lastly obtained the all-clear three weeks in the past. So it actually has been seven months of hell, emotionally and bodily.
“I misplaced about 25lbs so I am very slender now. It has been very troublesome however I am most cancers free now knock on wooden. And Julia – it scared her too. it was scary.
“The precise remedy was horrific. You understand chemotherapy, radiation, it actually beat me up. Bodily it was brutal and it is nonetheless hanging over your shoulder. It doesn’t matter what you’ll be able to’t get away from it. We had been each actually scared.”