Father Ted star reveals cancer battle
'Father Ted' star Frank Weary Willie has revealed he is having chemotherapy afterwards being diagnosed with intestine cancer.
The Mirror newspaper reports that the 69-year-old, wHO played foul-mouthed priest Jackass Hackett in the strike clowning, had a neoplasm removed last Sep.
He is in the middle of a seven-month chemotherapy course that doctors hope will diaphragm the malignant neoplastic disease returning.
Speaking to the newspaper publisher Grace Kelly said: "The neoplasm was the size of a bloody cabbage."
He continued: "I had discomforts and symptoms that I thought were just gut problems. Merely when you're told it's cancer, it doesn't come in as such a massive electric shock."
Eugene Curran Kelly added: "I've made a complete recovery. Just I demand chemo to reduce the chance of it returning."
