Powerful moment daughter surprises her cancer-stricken mother by shaving her hair off in solidarity

A mother battling cancer broke down in tears when her daughter unexpectedly shaved her head in a show of solidarity.

Sophie Mulcahy was about to shave her mother Tracy’s head after she was diagnosed with stage four high-grade ovarian cancer and started losing her hair due to chemotherapy treatment.

But he suddenly ran the electric shaver through his hair as his mother burst into tears at the act of sacrifice before the couple sobbed in each other’s arms.

Footage of the touching moment, which was shared by Bambi Blonde hairdressers in Bunbury, Western Australia, on March 15, has gone viral, with Hollywood actress Viola Davis even commenting on it.

“The whole room was crying,” said owner Claire Lovett.

He encouraged others to get checked.

Sophie has since revealed that she decided to do it because she didn’t want her mother to “go through this alone.”

‘She means the absolute world to me. “She has gone out of her way to help me with any problems she has had in the past,” Sophie told radio station Hit WA.

Tracy said her daughter’s decision was “just crazy.”

“I saw her do it and I said, no, please no, please don’t do this.” “I don’t want you to go through what I’m going through,” Tracy said.

“I think when I sat in the hair salon chair and got ready for the day, but when you actually sit in that chair and normally go to the hair salon, it’s obviously a positive experience.

‘And then having to look inside and see there wasn’t much hair left at the time. And to see Sophie do that and sacrifice her own hair for me, it was crazy.”

The family has launched a GoFundMe.