AFL star Jeremy Finlayson and his terminally ill wife Kellie have made the sad decision to sell their Adelaide home as she continues to battle cancer.
The Port Adelaide star and his influencer wife, both 28, revealed they were selling their home so they could find a suitable place to provide Kellie with home care.
“This was going to be our forever home, but I guess life had other plans,” Kellie said. Adelaide now.
‘It was a really nice space, but we found that with the amount of people we needed around me and the space we would need for equipment and machinery, we needed more room.’
The couple are now moving to a more suitable property in Adelaide with their daughter Sophia, while Kellie continues treatment for stage 4 bowel and lung cancer.
“I fight for my life every day. I have every excuse to lie down and complain, but there’s not much point in doing so.”
The social media influencer previously battled bowel and lung cancer after being diagnosed in November 2021 following the birth of the couple’s son, Sophia.
She underwent several surgeries and chemotherapy after her initial stage 3 diagnosis progressed to stage 4.
AFL star Jeremy Finlayson and his terminally ill wife Kellie have made the sad decision to sell their Adelaide home as she continues to battle cancer. Pictured together with their daughter Sophia
In January, Kellie began another six-month round of chemotherapy, but had since stopped her chemotherapy and radiation treatments to rely on natural therapies and alternative medicine.
However, in June she confirmed that she would likely have to resume chemotherapy to quickly control any further growth of the cancer.
“Unfortunately, cancer, especially recurrent cancer, grows very quickly, so once we see even a millimetre of growth on a scan over a couple of months, we know that means it’s growing and that means we need to act on it,” she said in a TikTok video.
‘Usually when I leave a meeting with my oncologist, he tells me that we are happy to watch and wait. Today that is not the case.
The Port Adelaide star and his influencer wife, both 28, revealed they were selling their home so they could find a suitable place to provide Kellie with home care.
“I’m seeing a surgeon and a radiation therapist next week, just to evaluate all my options before possibly starting chemotherapy again.”
Kellie said her treatments had worked to slow the spread of her cancer but had “100 per cent” robbed her of her first year of motherhood with Sophia, and she now faces the prospect of not having any more children.
Meanwhile, Jeremy said the turmoil of the past few years had taken its toll on him and impacted his football career.
The couple and their daughter Sophia are now moving to a more suitable property in Adelaide, as Kellie continues to battle stage four bowel and lung cancer.
