The symptoms, the fear then the discovery of brain tumor: Sophie Kinsella he recounted his fight against evil in a very long interview given to Very trueSince Silvia Toffaninin which she appeared lucid and determined to win this fight which proves difficult, month after month.
The author of the successful saga of I like shoppingwho quickly became an icon of her generation, explained how she faced this very complicated period of her life and the first clues which led her to diagnosis.
He also did this in his latest book, What does it look likein which he tells his story.
Sophie Kinsella, how she discovered she had cancer
“I noticed it from my legs, I had weak legssoft. I even thought about going back to the gym. Then I often stumbled, was always tired and realized that there was something wrong. So I did the checks and discovered the brain tumor”,
revealed Sophie Kinsella about the cancer she has been fighting for several years. It was she who made the announcement of the disease, in April 2024, two years after the diagnosis which had initially plunged her into the most irrational despair.
“I didn’t share it before because I wanted to to make sure my kids were ready listen and process information in complete privacy and adapt to our new normal”,
she explained on this occasion, also affirming that she had suffered a delicate surgery and the subsequent therapies – consisting of cycles of chemotherapy and radiotherapy – with which he continues to try to stem the disease.
The writer then found himself confronted with long rehabilitation processwhich allowed him to find your strength and his body awareness:
“It was important. I couldn’t walk anymore, I couldn’t hold a pen. I had to relearn how to walk with a walker but my writing was a place where I could escape and feel good.”
How he reacted to the diagnosis
Before sharing his condition with the public, he waited two years, out of respect for his privacy and for his children who probably were not yet ready to adequately face the news if the whole world had known. There first reaction from Sophie Kinsella was in denial:
“At first I didn’t believe it, when they gave me the diagnosis I couldn’t even believe it. My first reaction was denial, it took me a while to accept the truth and then I experienced all the stages of grief“.
At her side, ready to support her, was her husband, who he didn’t leave her alone for a single moment: “My husband was the absolute star in this phase of my life and my new book is about just that, about drama and a great love story.
He slept on the floor in the hospital, he was with me at every doctor’s appointment but especially when I tended to forget that I had a tumor, and that happened because every day I woke up without remembering what was happening, he had to repeat everything to me and it was very difficult for him.
In the morning he wakes up before me, reads on the Internet and tells me a positive story about someone who has the same diagnosis as me and who made it,” said the writer who, only after years of treatment , chose to speak to the public and with his readers about the difficult period he is going through.