Janey Godley apologises for scaring fans after choking on stage

‘I thought I was going to die!’: Comedian Janey Godley, 61, apologises for scaring fans after choking on stage amid her battle with terminal cancer

Janey Godley apologised to her crowd in Glasgow on Sunday after she had to be saved after she began choking on stage.

The comedian, 61 – who announced in December she was suffering from terminal ovarian cancer –  took a sip of water during her show when the incident occurred at the city’s SECC Armadillo venue.

Janey’s struggles for breath became so severe her daughter Ashley Storrie, 36, had to run on stage to help. 

Late taking to Twitter the comedian wrote: ‘Just when I was choking and thought I was dying onstage my daughter ran on,’ 

‘Banged my back- checked I was alive and improvised in front of 3000 people until I got my breath back and we carried on with the show – Honey made her stage debut tonight as well – what a night! #secc.’

Sorry! Janey Godley, 61, apologised to her crowd in Glasgow on Sunday after she had to be saved after she began choking on stage

Illness: The comedian – who announced in December she was suffering from terminal ovarian cancer – took a sip of water during her show when the incident occurred (pictured in 2022)

Dramatic: Janey’s struggle for breath became so severe her daughter Ashley Storrie, 36 (right) had to run on stage to help

Update: Taking to Twitter following the show the comedian wrote: ‘Just when I was choking and thought I was dying onstage my daughter ran on,

Her daughter Ashley also took to social media as she shared a tearful snap following the scary moment. 

Writing: ‘Mum nearly choked to death on a sip of water, on stage, in front of thousands of people, I had to Pat her back, ascertain if she was dying and also take the mic and do funny bits while she learned to breathe again. I’m a f***ing wreck.’

The comedian is currently performing her Not Dead Yet tour after being told her ovarian cancer had returned and was present in her abdomen causing her cancer markers to go up.

She vowed to continue touring until the end of her life.

Janey who became a viral sensation with her Nicola Sturgeon voiceover videos during lockdown was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in November 2021 and had a full hysterectomy in January 2022.

Scary stuff: Her daughter Ashley also took to social media as she shared a tearful snap following the scary moment

Teardul: Writing: ‘Mum nearly choked to death on a sip of water, on stage, in front of thousands of people, I had to Pat her back, ascertain if she was dying and also take the mic and do funny bits while she learned to breathe again. I’m a f***ing wreck’

In January she  joked that she’s ‘like a human advent calendar’ since people keep asking how long she has left to live following the return of the illness.

Telling Lorraine she’s unable to predict the remaining length of her lifetime, she spoke candidly during an appearance on the ITV daytime show.

She said: ‘Because of my cancer diagnosis this will be my last tour. I can’t wait to laugh and not talk about my blood count.’

The TV personality added of her family: ‘I know the reason they’re sad is because of me. We have to have laughter. We have to have giggles.’

On getting her diagnosis, she continued: ‘I didn’t know I had it until I was stage three. If you’re bloated, if you already feel full when you go to eat, if you’re weeing a lot, go and get checked.

‘I want to go out with a bang!’ In January she joked that she’s ‘ like a human advent calendar’ since people keep asking how long she has left to live following the return of the illness

Candid: The TV personality added of her family: ‘I know the reason they’re sad is because of me. We have to have laughter. We have to have giggles’

‘It’s treatable, it’s not curable. It will keep coming back and I’ll keep having to fight it. It’s appeared on my peritoneum, which is what holds all your bits together. I’m getting new cancer treatment to deal with that.

‘People say how long have you got like I’m a human advent calendar. I don’t know. But if I’m gonna go out I’m gonna go out with a bang.

‘If love could cure me I’d have been cured ages ago. When you’re feeling gloomy and down and thinking how low do I have left, when someone says on Facebook that they’re thinking about you it really does lift you up.’ 

 Janey revealed that her cancer has returned in a candid Instagram video, as she vowed to continue to tour until the end of her life.

The star reassured fans that she would still be performing her Not Dead Yet tour next year and said she was the type to ‘die on her feet’ and not on her knees. 

In the video, Janey said it may be the ‘last time’ she performs on stage after doctors told her cancer – that originated in her ovaries – continued to be present in her abdomen.

She said: ‘My recent scan and my blood tests showed that my cancer marker went up’.

Honesty: She said: ‘Because of my cancer diagnosis this will be my last tour. I can’t wait to laugh and not talk about my blood count’  (pictured in 2021)  

‘There’s still a bit of disease in my abdomen. So I want you all to know that I’ll be going through some more chemotherapy’.

She added: ‘I also want you to know that I’m going ahead with the tour in February and March. I am determined to get back on stage.

‘I’m not going to sing My Way – it’s not going to be that type of tour, There’s going to be a lot of fun – it’s going to be my dream come true to get back on stage in February and March.’

She captioned the video: ‘Hello everyone – an update and just to let you know I am looking forward to the tour on Feb-March. Thanks to everyone supporting me’ 

Janey was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in November 2021 and had a full hysterectomy in January 2022. 

In April she took to Instagram to thank the NHS after being told she was now cancer free following a hysterectomy. 

She said: ‘After a hysterectomy and six rounds of chemo and a blood transfusion, it seems like the NHS has definitely saved my life.

‘I want to thank everybody at the Beatson Cancer Care and everybody in the NHS who looked after me, and my wee pal Shirley who looked after me when I came out with a hysterectomy.’

Growths that can be cancerous or benign: What is an ovarian tumor?

Ovarian tumours are abnormal growths that start in the ovary and may be cancerous or benign.

When cancerous, nine out of ten arise from the cell that line the ovaries and fallopian tubes – known as epithelial ovarian cancer.

High-grade serous ovarian cancer makes up six out of every ten epithelial cases. Most actually in the fallopian tubes.

These growths tend to be treated via chemo and radiotherapy.  

Low-grade serous cancers account for just one in ten epithelial cases. These are slow growing and tend to be in younger women. 

Surgery is the most effective treatment for low-grade serous epithelial cancers.

Mucinous tumours make up a small percentage of epithelial ovarian cancer. 

 

Source: Target Ovarian Cancer 

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