In April it became known that comedian and public debater Shabana Rehman (45) had become seriously ill, and that she is fighting the biggest battle of her life. She said this in an interview with See and listen.
The 45-year-old has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer with spread, and at the time of writing she is still fighting the deadly disease.
– It does not go my way
She received the brutal death sentence at the same time as “Farmen kjendis” was broadcast on TV 2. While the viewers enjoyed the participants’ experiences on the farm, she was at Akershus University Hospital where she was immediately admitted.
In a new, exclusive interview with See and listen Rehman now reveals that she has gotten a boyfriend in Petter Simonsen (49).
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– Magical and scary
– I understand that it may seem strange that a relationship is established when the life situation should indicate something completely different. It’s both magical and scary at the same time. I thought ‘Fy søren. Petter is not afraid of shots ». It’s not me either, but it’s clear that it takes courage from us, she tells the magazine honestly.
FOUND A BOYFRIEND: In Tuesday’s edition of See and Hear, Shabana Rehman tells that she found a boyfriend in the death struggle. Facsimile: See and Hear
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Although Rehman has found a glimmer of light, she admits that the new couple is painfully aware of what awaits them: the uncertain.
– I can understand how people wither and disappear when they are sick, because we do not tolerate so much pain. Then the body chooses what is comfortable – to wither more and more every day. But I feel that I am starting to wake up again through love, Rehman says gratefully in the exclusive interview.
More health challenges
When Rehman told about the cancer diagnosis earlier this year, it was not the first time she opened up about her own health.
In January, she told Dagbladet that she three years earlier had reached the bottom in health.
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– I have struggled with obesity and diabetes, and metabolism – so I was really sick. I have struggled with it all my life and you get quite tired and lethargic, so it’s not nice, she said at the time.
Rehman said she had type 2 diabetes, which is largely considered a lifestyle disease.
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However, when she lost her dog two years earlier, she found a way to deal with the grief that would turn out to change everything.
– I started running around a bit in the neighborhood, ran from grief simply. In addition, I started with periodic fasting, so I got control of my blood sugar, she said in January this year.
By August 2020, Rehman had lost 25 kilos and “eaten well”, she could stop taking medication for diabetes.
