Comedian Janey Godley has died astatine the property of 63.
The bittersweet quality was confirmed by her manager, earlier Janey's girl Ashley Storrie released a heartfelt video connection to societal media. Ashely thanked unit astatine the hospice wherever her comedian parent had been staying for making a 'scary modulation truthful peaceful.'
Ashley had been her mum's dependable successful the weeks and months earlier her death, regularly posting to societal media and sharing her brave mum's journey.
Just days earlier Janey passed, Ashley described her arsenic being 'in the last beats of life.' In the aforesaid post, she besides revealed her pridefulness arsenic her mum was awarded an honorary grade from the University of Glasgow arsenic she shared a pic of her receving a certificate from her bed.
The station read: “Thank you @UofGlasgow for bestowing upon my mum the honorary grade of doc of the University of Glasgow. This has brought her truthful overmuch joyousness successful the last beats of her life. Janey is truthful honoured and I americium truthful immensely arrogant of her. I americium ever arrogant of her. Thank you for each your kindness and enactment to our household successful this precise hard time."
The University of Glasgow replied: "It is an honour to bestow an honorary doctorate connected the unthinkable Dr Godley. We nonstop each our emotion and enactment to Janey and her family." Ashley besides posted pictures of Janey lying successful furniture and smiling portion showing disconnected the certificate from the university.
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X/ @JaneyGodley)Friends and fans rushed to the remark conception to nonstop their support. Nigella Lawson wrote: "This is heartbreakingly beautiful. All emotion to you," portion Owen Jones said: "She’s an unthinkable pistillate who has made america laughter and think, afloat of truthful overmuch courageousness and motivation clarity. She is truthful loved."
India Willoughby posted: "Sending emotion to you both. Richly deserved Janey!" Janey is presently receiving end-of-life attraction aft her terminal crab spread.
Janey, champion known for her Nicola Sturgeon parodies, announced the heartbreaking quality of her ovarian crab successful November 2021.
She was fixed the all-clear successful 2022, earlier aboriginal announcing that different scan had shown signs of the illness successful her abdomen. She past cancelled her forthcoming circuit this autumn owed to her signifier 4 ovarian cancer. The stand-up announced she would beryllium getting palliative attraction and going into a hospice successful a video shared to societal media.
“So I’m present successful palliative attraction and I’m astatine end-of-life attraction present successful the hospital”, she said successful the video. "The chemo ran retired of options and I conscionable couldn’t instrumentality immoderate much of it and the crab has spread. So it looks similar this volition beryllium getting to adjacent the extremity of it and it’s truly hard to talk astir this and accidental to people.” She besides thanked charities who person supported her passim her wellness journey.
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