Former fitness TV presenter Nicci Roscoe has opened up about having to completely change her career following a devastating brain tumour diagnosis.
Nicci, 62, regularly appeared on various television shows in the 1990s, appearing on Sky, BBC and GMTV as a fitness expert after David Lloyd Clubs appointed her as head of aerobics.
However, she was forced to significantly change the course of her career after undergoing surgery for her life-threatening brain tumour.
It was during her radio stint in the late 1990s that the star, who is now a professional inspirational speaker, began to grow concerned for her health.
“I was on my regular slot on Viva Radio when I would occasionally utter a different word to the one I wanted to say,” she told OK! Magazine.
“It was a very strange feeling and quite frightening not being able to get out the words I wanted.”
Nicci then went to see a doctor who diagnosed her with stress, but the source of her pain and speech issues was not discovered until 2001.
After becoming immobilised with pain while in a supermarket, Nicci had several tests which revealed she had a brain tumour – and she immediately feared that she was “going to die”.
She continued: “The next day I was sitting in the neurosurgeon’s office and he told me I had a golf ball-sized brain tumour that was deeply embedded in my brain.
“It was near the parts of my brain that controlled speech, balance, co-ordination, and memory. My partner at the time started to cry, and I found the strength deep within me to ask, ‘Am I going to die?’
“My neurosurgeon said if I didn’t have the tumour removed, it would continue to grow and I would be like a vegetable within two years and dead within five.”
Nicci is still left with three titanium bolts and six screws in her head following the operation.
She switched up her career to be a meditation teacher, as well as owning her own company Mind Medication.
Despite lamenting the fact that her tumour derailed her TV career in the past, she still regularly appears on screen and radio stations.
Able to share her life lessons with those tuning in, she concluded: “I hope there is still time to reach wider audiences and share everything I have learned again.”
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