Neighbours star Kate Keltie – who played Michelle Skully and was part of the Skully family on the soap – has announced she’s “cancer-free” just months after revealing her stage four breast cancer diagnosis.
Keltie joined Neighbours when she was just 13 and was part of the show from 1999-2004 and was siblings with Holly Candy (nee Valance) and Carla Bonner on the show.
The former actress’s cancer diagnosis was revealed in November last year when her cousin started a GoFundMe page to help her cover the costs associated with the treatment.
“Our beautiful Kate is going through the unimaginable,’’ part of the fundraising page read. “She was recently diagnosed with Stage 4 Breast Cancer. Her cancer is extremely aggressive and it has spread to other parts of her body, including her lymph nodes, blood and hip bones (known as metastatic cancer).”
The page raised more than $37,000 for Keltie’s treatment and has since been removed. In February this year Keltie posted an update telling her followers that she had beaten cancer.
“I recently received results of my latest scan and was told that there had been a complete metabolic response to diseased areas,” she wrote. “In other words, it seems I am cancer-free.”
The post has since been deleted and the GoFundMe page has been removed. Daily Mail Australia has reported that Keltie’s PR agent agreed to an interview with the publication but later stopped replying to the emails.
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When the publication approached her father about the interview, he reportedly said that she was too busy in her job as head of digital experience at finance firm Vanguard Australia to find time for an interview.
“All I know is that she qualified for a particular type of treatment and had it,” he told the publication.
“When she went back with her mother and father, the doctor said, “It’s gone – it’s completely gone.”
He added, ‘They didn’t know what they were hearing when they were told. They said, “What do you mean, it’s gone? He said, ‘It’s completely gone.’ So that is a really positive story what happened with Kate”.
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