Caroline Aherne's tragic death - £500k estate to dying wish to best friends
dailystar.co.ukThe Royle Family with close friend Craig Cash - playing Denise Royle and her husband David respectively.READ MORE: Caroline Aherne's extraordinary life - 'genius' IQ, violent marriage and Royle Family fightOn top of that, her comments and thoughts were boomed into the homes of the nation on a weekly basis when she served as the original narrator for Channel 4's hit show Gogglebox.Her final diagnosis - which was terminal - was kept hidden at her request, leaving co-stars and fans devastated when the sad news broke in the summer of 2016.As a baby, Caroline had a rare cancer of the retina, retinoblastoma, which robbed her of most of her sight in one eye.She was later diagnosed and successfully treated for bladder cancer before being diagnosed with lung cancer in 2014.After another battle, she went into remission, but tragically passed away after receiving a terminal diagnosis in 2016.Co-star John Thompson revealed she was in remission when they worked on a show in 2015.Her hair, beneath her wig, had regrown and she was thin, but despite all this she was on amazing form, the Caroline I knew and loved working with," he recalled.Confirming her diagnosis at a Macmillian Cancer charity event, she told how she's struggled to take the news in and relied on her famous humour to get her through treatment."When you hear them telling you that you have cancer, it's true that you really don't take it in properly, you just don't think of the questions," she said."So many funny things happen when you're in there and, looking back, you do have a right laugh with the nurses.
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