Articles | Goody has surgery to relieve pain

Goody has surgery to relieve pain

Published: Tuesday, 3 March 2009, 8:24AM

Jade Goody has undergone surgery after being plagued with crippling stomach pains.

The 27-year-old, who has terminal cancer, had surgery at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London following tests on Monday.

Her spokesman, Max Clifford, said the operation was vital as it could help improve her quality of life.

He said: "Hopefully the operation will relieve the pain and pressure she has been experiencing in her bowel. This operation is important because if successful it could alleviate the worst of the pain she's been experiencing.

"She will be able to start eating again and it will give her more quality of life and more quality of time."

Clifford said Goody desperately wants to return home to spend her remaining time with Tweed and her two sons, Bobby, five, and Freddie, four.

He added: "She's very sedated at the moment, she just hopes the operation goes well so she can get home and enjoy some quality time with her family."

Clifford said Goody will remain at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital following the operation. If all goes well she may be transferred back to the Royal Marsden where she was moved on Sunday night after complaining of unrelenting pain while at the St Clare Hospice near Harlow, Essex.

Goody and her sons are due to be christened next Saturday at a church close to her home. She also plans to record a television interview with Piers Morgan for ITV early this week.

Meanwhile, Goody's husband, Jack Tweed, 21, will appear again before magistrates in Epping, Essex, charged with assaulting a taxi driver. He denies the charge.