Jade Goody Has Died Of Cervical Cancer
Some of you may not know who Jade Goody is; I didn't either until I started reading the British papers a couple of years ago.
She was a working-class girl who shot to fame and fortune by just being herself on the UK version of Big Brother, and she died on Sunday (UK's Mother's Day) at the young age of 27 from cervical cancer:
Jade's young sons awoke on Mothering Sunday to the heartbreaking news she had died in the night.Five year-old Bobby and his brother Freddie, four, were told by their father Jeff Brazier that 'mummy has gone to heaven'.
Her mother Jackiey, husband Jack, 21, and close friend Kevin Adams were by her bedside when she slipped away.
According to Mr [Max] Clifford she has been heavily sedated throughout most of her final week in a bid to control the pain.
‘In recent days she slipped deeper and deeper into unconsciousness,' he said. ‘The last 24 hours she has been pretty much in a coma." [...]
Jade discovered she had cervical cancer last August while taking part in the Indian version of Big Brother. She was told the disease had spread to her bowel and liver and was terminal in January.
Even by her own account, she wasn't a very bright girl (she once said, "“I am intelligent but I let myself down because I can’t speak properly or spell," and thought Rio de Janeiro was a soccer player), but the public could not get enough of her. Her career in the spotlight had many ups and downs, and Jade was embroiled in a racial scandal when she returned to the BB house and became involved in bullying Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty. She and Miss Shetty had later spoken and patched things up (she flew to the UK in hopes of seeing Jade before she died, but Jade was too ill), and Jade agreed to go on the Indian version of the show to try and restore some of her image, but not before Jade took a beating in the press and saw her once-lucrative career start to dry up. Continued on the next page
