Princess Diana's former butler and friend Paul Burrell has opened up about his diagnosis with prostate cancer. Photo / @lorraine
Princess Diana's former butler and friend Paul Burrell has opened up about his diagnosis with prostate cancer. Photo / @lorraine
Paul Burrell has cancer.
The 64-year-old former butler - who used to work for, and was a confidante of, the late Princess Diana - is worried he won’t be alive at the end of the year after being diagnosed with prostate cancer last summer.
He said: “I’m tired, I’m onhormone therapy, it’s robbing me of my testosterone so my beard isn’t growing as it should, I’m tired, and I’m getting hot flushes.
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“Thinking ‘Am I going to be here next year [for Christmas]?’... I told my boys and they said ‘Dad, we need to spend more time with you’.”
Burrell explained he had been for a medical check last year and underwent a “full MOT”, with a PSA test - which can detect prostate cancer - showing “fairly unusual” levels. It prompted his doctor to send him for an MRI scan, which showed a shadow on his prostate.
While the former I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! contestant feels “so tired”, he feels fortunate it was caught early and wants to raise awareness of the disease.
Speaking on UK TV show Lorraine, he said: “At the same time you realise that there are thousands of men out there like me who have no symptoms and don’t know they have it.
