Kelly Stafford with NFL quarterback husband Matthew Stafford, whom she married in 2015.Photo:Harry How/Getty
Harry How/Getty
“If journalists actually took time to check facts these days, they would know this. I’m infuriated,” she wrote, addressing the reports in anInstagramcaption, as well as in a post on herInstagramstories.
Stafford — who is married to Los Angeles Rams quarterbackMatthew Stafford, 35 — shared a now-deleted Tweet from aBroBiblereporter with the headline “Matthew Stafford’s Wife Kelly Thinks She Might Have Cancer Again.”
Therumor startedafter Stafford discussed having some medical tests done. “All of a sudden, I’m getting like this awful mid-back, upper-back pain. I feel like my stomach’s not great. And in the back of my mind, I’m thinking I have f—ing cancer,” she said on her podcastThe Morning After,where she discusses her family and personal life as well as news and current affairs.
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Stafford, 34, wasdiagnosed with a benign brain tumor, an acoustic neuroma, in April 2019. But this time, as she later explained on her podcast, she was diagnosed with a bad stomach bug.
“I did not have cancer, but I was terrified of the possibility considering what I had been feeling," she wrote on Instagram. “[I] REITERATED IT SEVERAL TIMES that it was ruled out.”
“This is part of the reason I don’t want to share my life.. people take it and use it as click bait,” wrote Stafford.
“Most the time I wouldn’t care what people wrote because it didn’t matter. THIS MATTERS. This matters because it takes away from the people who are fighting this horrible disease.. fighting to live another day, fighting to be there with the ones they love, fighting 24/7,” she wrote.
“So PLEASE send your prayers to them. I will reiterate it again, I do not have cancer and I have never had cancer.”
In 2019, Stafford underwent a 12-hour operation toremove the brain tumorthat was resting on her cranial nerves. The operation was originally scheduled to last for six hours, but at the time, she revealed some complications made the procedure last twice as long.
Kelly Stafford dismissed this report as “click bait” on her Instagram stories.Kelly Stafford/Instagram
Kelly Stafford/Instagram
“When they opened me up, I had an abnormal vein… maybe abnormal for other neurosurgeons, but not the one we chose,” she wrote. “He had seen it before and written a paper on it. That’s truly God’s work. The prayers for my family, I’m beyond thankful for.”
The mom of four daughters — identical twins Sawyer and Chandler, 6, Hunter, 4, and Tyler, 3 — says she’s empathetic to those who are battling cancer.
“I’m so sorry again for the ones who are fighting. 🙏 And to you so called journalists out there, be better. And stop using me as click bait because nfl camp is starting back 🙄”
source: people.com
