Goody leaves hospital

LONDON: Cancer-stricken Jade Goody left hospital on March 2 after being admitted for

an operation to relieve her pain.

The 27-year-old Big Brother star left the Royal Marsden Hospital, in Fulham, south west London, in a wheelchair. Hospital staff put Jade into a waiting ambulance and she was then driven away.

Her spokesman Max Clifford said she was having further tests but it was not yet clear whether she would have surgery.

Jade had been told surgery to remove a blockage from her bowel might be needed to relieve the pain, Clifford said.

“I spoke to her earlier and she was feeling better this morning after a good night’s sleep. She was waiting to find out what’s going to happen.”

Clifford said his “instinct” was that she was going to the oncology unit at London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for further assessment.

Goody was admitted to the Royal Marsden Hospital on March 1 after spending the day in agony, Clifford said.

The mother of two has been told she has only weeks to live after cervical cancer, which was diagnosed last year, spread to her liver, groin and bowel.

Goody, who found fame after appearing in the reality show in 2002, wed her boyfriend Jack Tweed, 21, last month, in a lavish televised ceremony and reception.

Her big day — media rights for which were reportedly sold for £1 million — was organised in the days after Tweed proposed to Goody in hospital after she was given the terminal diagnosis. She has defended her decision to live her last weeks under the media spotlight, saying the money from film and photo rights would help provide for her two young sons, aged five and four.