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He is the talented designer from Channel 10’s The Living Room who always has a smile on his face, so it’s hard to believe that Barry Du Bois, or Baz as he’s lovingly known, once battled through a dark time in his life.
Speaking to New Idea, the TV host revealed: “I was depressed, I refused to talk about it and I just thought it was everyone else trying to annoy me.”
Barry, 58, has always been open about his battle with cancer – he was diagnosed with Plasmacytoma Myeloma, a cancer of the immune system in 2010 – and while he has maintained a positive outlook throughout his gruelling treatment and surgery, he now admits to experiencing depression at one point.
Barry has previously said his struggles first started after he lost his mother to breast and bowel cancer in 2004. But the difficult times didn’t stop there when his wife, Leonie Tobler, went on to be diagnosed with cervical cancer.
“I lost my mum, my wife got cancer and everything started to unwind,” Barry says, with raw honesty. “I just didn’t want to talk, I closed down.”
Bu hikaye New Idea dergisinin April 29, 2019 sayısından alınmıştır.
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