| Search the Web and Mirror.co.uk Business Finder People Finder Home News ... Bill Borrows 25 September 2003 PAUL MERTON MOURNS COURAGEOUS WIFE By Fiona Cummins And Rosa Prince HEARTBROKEN Paul Merton told last night how his wife Sarah died in peace after battling cancer for 19 months. The Have I Got News For You star said in a statement: "She faced the situation with courage and died serenely without pain. Her family will miss her deeply." Writer and producer Sarah, 41, spurned conventional medicine and set out to heal herself with alternative therapies after learning she had breast cancer in February last year. Her condition suddenly worsened two weeks ago. She died on Tuesday with her husband of three months at her bedside. Advertisement Paul, 46, said: "After her initial devastating diagnosis Sarah successfully lived with the disease for the next 19 months. "She refused chemotherapy because she knew it would finish her off. Instead, she boosted her immune system with a mixture of nutritional therapy, yoga, meditation, positive thinking and laughter. "Consequently, she led a full and active life right up to the last couple of weeks when her condition suddenly worsened." A close friend of Paul's said last night: "He is understandably devastated. He's a very private man and he now needs time to grieve." | |
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