Johnny Ruffo, a Perth-born actor, and musician has provided an update on his health over a year after revealing he was battling brain cancer for the second time.
The former Home and Away star shared a selfie with his girlfriend Tahnee Sims on Instagram, revealing his mischievous smile.
“Cracking day for a walk (sic),” he wrote.
“Just thought I’d jump on and give an update…
“I’m still kicking along with my chemotherapy treatment, feeling pretty exhausted but I’m doing great otherwise & not giving up the fight (sic) Thanks for all the support!!”
In an emotional edition of 7NEWS Spotlight in June, the concreter from Balcatta explained that despite months of treatment, he was still not out of the woods.
“I’m gonna fight tooth and nail no matter what,” he said on the show.
Ruffo was suffering from excruciating headaches in 2017 when he went to the emergency room, where he fell into a coma and required surgery to remove a 7cm tumor, as well as treatment.
“They told me I have brain cancer. And it was like, wow, my whole world just got flipped upside down,” he said.
“The day that it truly sunk in was maybe, I don’t know, three or four weeks into radiotherapy.
“I was at home one day, and I was watching television, and I just went to just scratch my hair, and I had a whole clump of hair in my hand, and I just broke down and I cried and cried and cried.
“And I went and sat in the shower and I just ripped all my hair out and I cried so much, and it was the worst day of my life. It was horrible.”
He said hearing he was in remission was the “greatest day of my life”, adding: “I just felt like I can finally get back to life and living again. and even though you never really truly know that it’s never … it’s never 100 percent because there’s always that chance that it may come back.”
Ruffo received the sad news late last year that his cancer had returned and migrated to another section of his brain, just three years later.
“I found myself struggling to remember so many, many things and I had 11 seizures in four days,” he said.
