I’m A Celeb star reveals bizarre way chemotherapy changed her body after she was diagnosed with bowel cancer
DJ Adele Roberts has told how chemotherapy removed her fingerprints.
The radio favourite, 45, who has appeared on Big Brother and I’m A Celeb, said treatment for bowel cancer also gave her black spots on her tongue and made her feet look “burned”.
Adele was diagnosed in 2021 but is now in remission.
She told the Monday Mile podcast: “Chemotherapy is different with every single person.
“And with me, it really affected my skin.
“So it took my fingerprints off.
“I couldn’t use my fingers, I couldn’t use touch screens, I couldn’t use my phone, self-checkouts, things like that.
“It really damaged the bottom of my feet – it looked like they’d been burnt or something like that.
“It also turned my tongue black.
“I had these black spots on my tongue.”
“So instead of being pink, like an intestine, she was like dark purple and it was almost like treacle would come out of it.
“It was a lot, it was a mess.
“I used to think if the chemo is doing this to me, imagine what it’s doing to the cancer.
“And I made sure that I stayed active all the way through my chemo.
“And I just used to visualise all of the chemotherapy going through my body and killing any cancer cells.
“And it was like a way for me to stay strong mentally.
“Movement and visualisation, that’s what I did.”