Married at First Sight Australia expert Mel Schilling has revealed she was recently diagnosed with colon cancer.
Mel, who has been an expert in the marriage experiment since 2015, took to Instagram on December 20 to drop the bombshell news to her fans.
“‘YOU HAVE CANCER’,” she penned alongside a photo of herself with husband Gareth Brisbane and their daughter Madison.
“Three little words that everyone dreads but no one ever expects to hear. Last Thursday my consultant told me those three words.”
Mel explained that “about a month ago”, while filming MAFS in Australia, she experienced “severe stomach cramps on set”.
“I put it down to all the travel I’d been doing and the upset it caused to my system. I saw my GP in Sydney and he put it down to constipation, gave me some laxatives and sent me on my way,” she recounted.
“Fortunately I knew something still wasn’t right so I booked in for a scan when I returned to the UK. On Thursday I was told I had colon cancer and in an instant, my whole life changed.”
Married at First Sight‘s Mel Schilling will spend Christmas Day in hospital
Mel, 51, said she and her family had plans to travel to Northern Ireland to spend Christmas with their loved ones.
“Instead, tomorrow morning I’m checking into the hospital to have an operation to remove a 5cm tumour in my colon, a tumour that had it gone undetected for much longer would have killed me,” she continued.
“Despite this, I feel incredibly blessed that it’s a cancer that is relatively easy to eradicate, I’m expected to make a full recovery though it’s a rough road ahead.”
She added: “It will be so tough to spend Xmas Day in the hospital instead of being surrounded by family but getting rid of Terry (what I’ve named my tumour) will be the best present of all.”
The MAFS expert concluded her post by expressing that “if something doesn’t feel right, please don’t ignore it”.
“If you don’t think the answers you have got are right, keep going until you do, it might just save your life.”
Friends and fans rally around Married at First Sight expert Mel Schilling
In the comment section, many family, friends and fans rallied around Mel in the wake of her news.
“Sending you and your family love, you’ve got this Mel,” MAFS 2022 bride Domenica Calarco wrote.
Fellow MAFS alum Sarah Roza said she was “so sorry to hear this news”.
“But I also know that if anyone can beat cancer it’s you, darling… Sending you so much love and strength right now.”
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