Kellie Finlayson has released a statement setting the record straight about her health, following some media outlets claiming the 27-year-old, who has bravely shared her bowel cancer battle, is miraculously close to being “cancer free”.
An ambassador for the Jodi Lee Foundation, Kellie has been focused on spreading awareness about bowel cancer, after she was diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer.
After sharing her story on The Project Monday night (May 29), Kellie spoke about some “pretty incredible results” she’d had regarding her cancer journey.
“George Tunny and the team at The Project presented my story so beautifully and I am very grateful for their sensitivity and care,” she said.
“Unfortunately, some media outlets chose to share another narrative off the back of this interview, taking the best snippets of information and making it sound as if I was miraculously cured and cancer free.
She said this was absolutely not the case.
“As you can imagine upon seeing these stories I was inundated with friends and family calling to celebrate ‘my miracle’.
I have had to tell each and every one of them that my prognosis has not changed.
I still have stage 4 colorectal cancer and I am not cancer free.”
Kellie, who has a two-year-old daughter, Sophia, with her new husband, Port Power’s Jeremy Finlayson, said the reports of her miraculously recovery had been incredibly traumatic for her.
“Telling people over and over again that I still have terminal cancer. My friends and family have also been on an emotional roller coaster over the past 24 hours reading this “news” and then having me set them straight,” she said.
“I’d like everyone to know that this is my life.
“It’s not a tragic sequence of events that happened to someone 20 years ago, I am living this day in and day out, right now. I want to share my story, but it is my wish that journalists and people in the media do their due diligence and make sure they are getting the information correct. Please treat my story with respect and sensitivity. Ask if you are not sure about something. Think about the impact you are having on others before pushing publish.”
She said her mission is to spread awareness about bowel cancer.
“I want people to be talking about this but I want it to be spoken about in the right way.”
Kellie has some exciting projects coming up in her role as an Ambassador for the Jodi Lee Foundation.
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