Johnny Ruffo's devastating news
Johnny Ruffo, former Home and Away superstar, has given a heartbreaking update on his cancer battle, confirming that his illness is terminal.
Shooting quickly to fame on The X Factor in 2011, before landing a role on Home and Away, Johnny Ruffo has been an Aussie icon for quite some time now. The news of his brain cancer diagnosis in 2017 was devastating.
In 2019, Johnny revealed he was all-clear of the disease but sadly in November the following year, he shared the development that his cancer had returned. Since then, he’s kept his loyal following updated on every step of the journey.
“At some point it will get me, but I’m still fighting, still kicking on,” Johnny has said in the past.
“Looking up my diagnosis and my tumour, the average life expectancy was three years. And for me now it’s been five. I’m already winning. My goal now is to try and help as many as I can and also live a happy life.”
Ruffo, whose new memoir, No Finish Line has just been released, shared that he is worried about how long-term girlfriend Tahnee Simms will cope without him.
“You can only imagine how difficult it's been for her. What plays in my head a lot is, I hate to say this, how hard it may be for her if something does happen to me," the actor said.
"So, it's something that I don't want to think about. It just gets me a little bit emotional about it because I know at some point something will happen, whether it's, you know, a month from now or 10 years from now or 20 years.”
Earlier this year, Johnny praised Tahnee for sticking by his side during the toughest years of his life.
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