ANGIE Best has given her fans the latest update from her hospital bed as she fights colon cancer.
Posting from her hospital bed in Switzerland, Angie revealed she would be starting her second round of chemotherapy in the coming days.
Angie, who was the first wife of footballer George Best and is mum to TV personality Calum Best, seemed upbeat in her Instagram video despite telling her followers, “I can’t function.”
She captioned the video: “All together now, 🎼 just one cornetto…yes they want me to eat sugar ffs 🤦♀️ I have to start second round of chemo on Tuesday 😬.”
In the video she showed her nurse waving to the camera and then spoke directly to her fans.
“So I’m back at my favourite place with my favourite nurse, isn’t she just a darling – and she speaks English but she’s Swiss,” Angie explained.
“I’ve got to gain weight so they’ve got me drinking these awful things [Angie held up a calorie shake]. I can’t find a jelly baby bloody anywhere and the only ice cream in Switzerland is a Cornetto for heaven’s sake.”
Angie then pleaded for help: “Advice needed: I know a lot of you have been through this, but I can’t function, I can’t lift my head up, I can’t brush my teeth, I can’t eat. It’s terrible.”
She coughed as she concluded: “Any advice there, homies?”
Angie also wrote under the clip: “Apparently feeling like this is normal. Nothing normal about it ffs. If you’re suffering right now, we’re here for each other.”
Many rushed to wish her warm wishes, including her son Calum.
“I’m so sorry you’re feeling this way and going through this, it will pass and we come out even better I love you,” he wrote.
Another person added: “You are doing just great Angie , keep up the good work.”
And a third commented: “Well I think you look beautiful as always, have the cornetto, keep fighting and stay strong, sending you lots of love.”
Angie’s EastEnders niece Sam Womack, who herself battled breast cancer in 2022, also shared words of encouragement.
“YES AUNTIE!!!!! Eat eat eat and you always look beautiful,” Sam wrote.
Earlier this month, Calum, 44, took to Instagram to plead for support from his mum who is struggling to afford her treatment, and to tell her fans that her cancer has spread to her liver.
“It doesn’t care where you’re from, how you live, or how healthy you try to be. And now, it’s here – and it’s with my mum,” he said.
Calum said he has set up a GoFundMe page for financial support.
Angie met George Best at a dinner party in LA in 1975 when he was signing to play for the Los Angeles Aztecs, and it was “love at first sight”.
They moved to London in 1976.
When she returned to Los Angeles, George followed her and persuaded her to marry him.
They wed on 24 January 1976 and went on to have son Calum in 1981.
The couple separated the following year and divorced in 1986, following George’s problems with alcohol abuse and domestic violence.