After enduring a run of horror health woes described as her “two and a half years of hell”, Lorraine Bayly is thrilled to be back in the pink and smiling again. “The past few years have been a nightmare, as I lurched from one serious health issue to the next,” the television treasure tells New Idea.
Lorraine Bayly on the health issues forcing her to retire from acting
Celebrity by Siobhan Duck It can be frustrating for Lorraine Bayly to listen to people complain about lockdown. After all, a few weeks - or even months - is nothing compared to the two-and-a-half years the Logie-winning actor has spent isolated at home in her one-bedroom Sydney apartment as she recuperates from serious health problems. First, she was diagnosed with pneumonia shortly after visiting her close friend
Home And Away star Cornelia Frances at her hospital deathbed in 2018. That illness led to a partially collapsed lung. And not long after she d recovered from that, she discovered she had breast cancer.
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She completed her cancer treatment but has spent the past few months isolating at her home amid the coronavirus pandemic. I ve spent the past two-and-a-half years going from one illness to another, she said.
Battle: The Sullivans star, 84, told The Daily Telegraph on Saturday, she s suffered from several health issues over the past two years
Lorraine continued: But I don t complain because for the first 80-odd years of my life, I got through without any serious illness at all. You look at the little kids on television who are fighting cancer and all sorts of problems. They re the ones my heart breaks for.