“Audrey, (my stoma) prolapsed again, been up all night holding my intestine in.” That was broadcaster Adele Roberts on Instagram, describing a rough night after a fitness challenge she had just finished for cancer research.
“Tummy is sore but at least my stoma is staying in my body for now,” she wrote. She blamed the pressure of a bowel prep and a colonoscopy, which she said “forces my intestine out of my stomach wall.”
Roberts, 47, first noticed symptoms of bowel cancer while she was a contestant on I’m A Celebrity. She confirmed the diagnosis in 2021. Chemotherapy and surgery to remove the tumour followed, and a stoma bag was fitted in 2022. Later that year she announced she was cancer-free, the Mirror reported.
A scare in November
Her health had already given her a worry last autumn. In November she revealed that a “concerning lump” on her neck had been removed. It first appeared at the start of summer, she said, and would not go away. “Nobody knew what it was and it wasn’t responding to treatment,” she wrote, so a specialist took it out.
The result was good news. The lump was benign, and she described herself as “absolutely buzzing.” She also admitted it had been “playing on my mind,” and thanked the NHS in her post.
Roberts has been open about what chemotherapy did to her body. Speaking on the Monday Mile podcast, she said it took off her fingerprints, so she could not use touch screens or self-checkouts. The soles of her feet looked burnt, and her tongue developed black spots.
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