Laura HarmanPublished Oct 31, 2024, 11:45am|Updated Oct 31, 2024, 12:00pm
Janey Godley’s daughter has revealed that her mother is coming to the end of her life in a touching post.
Janey’s daughter Ashley has revealed that her mother has received an honourary degree while she receives palliative care in a hospice.
‘Thank you @UofGlasgow for bestowing upon my mum the honorary degree of doctor of the University of Glasgow.
‘This has brought her so much joy in the final beats of her life. Janey is so honoured, and I am so immensely proud of her.
‘Congratulations Doctor Godley. Ashley Storrie,’ read the post on X showing Janey in a hospital bed clutching her qualification.
The Scottish comedian, 63, was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer in 2021, and revealed in September that her cancer had spread.
Ashley is Janey’s only daughter with her husband Sean Storrie who she has been married to since 1980 when she was 19.
She has followed in her mother’s footsteps to become a stand-up comedian and BBC Radio Scotland host.
In September the star announced she was receiving ‘end of life care’ after the chemotherapy she was undergoing ‘ran out of options.’
‘The cancer has spread, so it looks like this will be getting to near the end of it, and it’s really difficult to speak about this and say it to people,’ she said.
Despite her decline in health, earlier this month she sent a defiant message to transphobic trolls while ‘in the last stages of her life’.
‘It doesn’t matter how many transphobes attack me in the last stages of my life, I won’t become them. I won’t think how they think. It’s a waste of their time banging on at me – I’m not going to be one of them,’ she said. on X
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