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Jade Goody to have emergency op to ease her pain

PETRIFIED Jade Goody told surgeons to operate on her "to get me out of all this pain".

The cancer-stricken 27-year-old, who has been given just weeks to live, spent a weekend in "agony".

And medics hoped to give her some relief by operating on her last night or early today.

The Big Brother star was taken from her hospice to the Royal Marsden Hospital, in Fulham, south-west London, last night.

Her publicist Max Clifford said: "She's very frightened. She was sobbing on the phone to me. She said, 'Why can't they get me out of all this pain?'

"Hopefully that's what they're going to do. She was sobbing and she was petrified but is still desperately trying to put on a brave face."

Doctors have told Jade that she has weeks to live after cervical cancer spread to her liver, groin and bowel. She was taken to St Clare Hospice, near Harlow, Essex, on Friday night and had been due to return to her home in nearby Upshire today.
But Clifford said doctors had explained that bowel surgery was likely to be the best option.

He added: "She says they've explained things to her and that's what's likely to happen. She said, 'Whatever gets me out of this pain'."

Clifford denied Goody's admission to hospital was a setback, adding: "It's a continuing process but we hope they will be able to get things under control.

"She wants to go home. She doesn't want to be in hospital."

Her new husband Jack Tweed yesterday took Jade's five-year-old son Bobby, an avid Spurs fan, to the Carling Cup final against Manchester United.

Jack, under a 7pm police curfew after being released from jail for attacking a teenager with a golf club, won't be at Jade's bedside today as he is due to stand trial on another assault charge.

The 21-year-old, criticised for not spending enough time with his new wife, is said to be "beside himself".

A source said: "Jack's been crying himself to sleep every night and has been unable to get to sleep before 6am.

"He feels bad not being able to be there with Jade and is really beating himself up about it."

Jade hoped to be christened next Saturday at a church close to her home with sons Bobby and Freddie, four.

But as her condition worsened, she realised that she might not make it that long. She was in such pain she began to fear she had only days left to live.

She scrapped plans for a party and said she would settle for a bedside ceremony.
A pal said: "Jade is just desperate to be christened before she goes."

Yesterday, one man claiming to be a faith healer was given a talking-to by police after trying to get in to see Jade at the hospice.

Source: Daily Record