The Former Contestants Share the Heartbreaking Battle They’ve Been Fighting
As fans of TV series The Block well know, renovation queens Sasha Wright Neville and Julia Treuel are used to rising to challenges – but lately the couple have had to fight to stay upbeat after Sasha received some crushing health news.
One moment, the two were clinking glasses, celebrating becoming runners-up – and the first lesbian couple – on the hit Channel Nine renovation show, and getting ready for a US holiday. The next, Sasha was in hospital, in agony with crippling stomach cramps.
Late last year, Sasha, 43, was diagnosed with a severe case of endometriosis, the condition in which tissue normally grown in the uterus spreads elsewhere in the body.
‘I’d been in so much pain, it was a relief to finally get a diagnosis. The gynaecologist said it was the worst case they’d seen in decades,’ Sasha says from the Melbourne home she shares with Julia, 32, her partner of five years.
This story is from the July 31, 2017 edition of New Idea.
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