Victoria Derbyshire ‘can’t stop crying’ after completing final chemotherapy session

In recovery: Victoria Derbyshire completes her final chemotherapy session
Victoria Derbyshire/Twitter/BBC
Jennifer Ruby7 March 2016
The Weekender

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Victoria Derbyshire has said that she ‘cant’ stop crying’ after completing the final stage of her chemotherapy treatment.

The BBC presenter and journalist, who discovered that she had breast cancer back in July last year, was overcome with emotion after her final session.

Speaking in a video diary, the 47-year-old said: “I'm home and I'm happy and I can't stop crying which is mad.

"I think it might be six months of tears just coming out in one go, if that's possible.”

Derbyshire added: “When it was over, the drugs had stopped going into me through the IV drip ... I think I felt in shock, I couldn't really speak. Which is not like me as you'll have gathered.

"Now I just want to see my boys after work. After work? After school, and have a cuddle and have a celebratory tea and get on with the rest of my life."

The video then shows the presenter being greeted by her sons, who present her with a bouquet of flowers, saying: “Happy end of chemo, Mummy.”

Derbyshire, who is known for presenting current affairs and news programmes on BBC Two and Radio 5 Live, has been documenting her cancer battle in a video diary for the BBC.

Speaking ahead of her final treatment, she said: “Every day for the past four days I have shed tears, which is really unusual because I haven't much in the past six or seven months at all.

"I think it's because for the whole of this process I've just been concentrating on and focusing on getting through it, taking each day as it comes as much as that is possible, and being pragmatic and cracking on.”

Derbyshire has said that she hopes her diaries will reassure and help women who are going through the same thing.

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