Sort Your Life Out star ‘comes full circle’ with emotional family announcement after cancer battle
BBC Sort Your Life Out star shared an emotional family update after her devastating cancer diagnosis.
Home-organising expert Dilly Carter has revealed her plans to adopt a child in the series finale of the BBC show that aired on Tuesday.
The star broke down in tears while talking about her journey to parenthood after learning the family they were helping had adopted.
The 43-year-old revealed she was also adopted and could relate to Sarah and Katherine.
Dilly has a daughter Nelly, 10, with husband Charley, but Dilly bravely admitted that she isn’t able to have any more children.
She was missing in some episodes of Sort Your Life Out in the last series last year after she had been diagnosed with womb cancer.
She underwent major surgery to treat painful fibroids on her stomach and uterus, before finding out one of the fibroids was cancerous and she had stage one womb cancer.
Dilly had to undergo a radical hysterectomy, but the news only got worse as she was told her cancer had gone from stage one to stage three.
She then had to have more surgery to remove lymph nodes as well as her womb.
Dilly spoke to guests Katherine and Sarah about her own adoption story.
She asked the sisters: “Do you think your attitudes change now you’ve got your own children about being adopted? I know for me, when I had my own child, Nelly, she was my first bloodline.
“Did you feel that? Because I think, oh my God, you’re the only person I actually am related to. I’ve got no one else in this country, no one else in my life. And it’s a really weird feeling, isn’t it?”
Sarah replied: “I feel it’s definitely healed a part of me. I think I’ve always wanted kids since I was a teenager.
“I’ve always wanted that. Not that we had any void with Mum and Dad, but I think meeting you and talking about this is the most open my Mum, in particular, has ever been, because I think as kids, it was always, ‘No, don’t tell anyone.’’
“You would feel like, ‘Oh, it’s a secret. I can’t tell anyone.’ I think she was scared that people wouldn’t see us as hers, and that ingrained a shame, even though it shouldn’t. It wasn’t intentional – and that carried on through life until this process.”
Wiping away her tears, an emotional Dilly said: “I can’t have any more children, so now I’m hopefully going to go full circle and adopt myself.”
Sort Your Life Out is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.