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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Hepatitis / October 2007Singer Marianne Faithfull has Hep C
Singer Faithfull has hepatitis C Singer Marianne Faithfull has revealed she was diagnosed with the hepatitis C virus in the 1990s. Faithfull, 60, let slip that she had the virus while discussing her recent treatment for breast cancer on ITV1's This Morning programme. "I found out about 12 years ago," she told host Phillip Schofield, adding she had received treatment at the time. Hepatitis C is a virus carried in the blood that, if left untreated, can cause fatal liver problems. There is currently no vaccine for the virus, which is has sometimes been called the silent epidemic. 'Incredibly lucky' Faithfull, a former heroin addict, made no link between her reckless youth and her having the virus. However, she admitted she had taken "a lot of risks". "I was incredibly lucky," she said. "I shouldn't be alive, I know that." "Life has become much more precious to me and my health has become much more precious to me." Hepatitis C is usually transmitted through blood-to-blood contact and can lay dormant for years. In an interview given two months before her death, Body Shop founder Dame Anita Roddick revealed she had been infected from a blood transfusion in 1971. The gravelly-voiced Faithfull first found fame in the 1960s as the muse of Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/entertainment/7039935.stm Published: 2007/10/11 14:46:59 GMT © BBC MMVII I wish somebody REALLY important would announce he/she has it. Betcha if the Quenn or George Dubya were diagnosed we'd have all kinds of new treatments flying out of the labs. I'd forgotten about Marianne Faithfull....she did some kind of a song about a little bird a billion or two years ago. > Singer Faithfull has hepatitis C > [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > > © BBC MMVII Maryanne Faithful hung out with the Rolling Stones and went to India with them just before their Satanic Majesty's Request phase. She was with Mick when the 'Stones got in a lot of trouble in Australia. Her music got very brittle and 'out there' later in her career. cactus jammies >I wish somebody REALLY important would announce he/she has it. Betcha if >the Quenn or George Dubya were diagnosed we'd have all kinds of new [quoted text clipped - 58 lines] >> >> © BBC MMVII >I wish somebody REALLY important would announce he/she has it. Betcha if >the Quenn or George Dubya were diagnosed we'd have all kinds of new >treatments flying out of the labs. > >I'd forgotten about Marianne Faithfull....she did some kind of a song about >a little bird a billion or two years ago. I also loved her "We'll Sing in the Sunshine..." >> Singer Faithfull has hepatitis C >> [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] >> >> © BBC MMVII >>I wish somebody REALLY important would announce he/she has it. Betcha if >>the Quenn or George Dubya were diagnosed we'd have all kinds of new [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >I also loved her "We'll Sing in the Sunshine..." I was wrong. The singer of the song, above, was Gale Garnett. >>> Singer Faithfull has hepatitis C >>> [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] >>> >>> © BBC MMVII But she did do "As Tears Go By," although the Stones' version was much better known. >>>I wish somebody REALLY important would announce he/she has it. Betcha if >>>the Quenn or George Dubya were diagnosed we'd have all kinds of new [quoted text clipped - 63 lines] >>>> >>>> © BBC MMVII >>> I wish somebody REALLY important would announce he/she has it. >>> Betcha if the Quenn or George Dubya were diagnosed we'd have all [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > I was wrong. The singer of the song, above, was Gale Garnett. I think her biggest claim to fame was her version of a Jagger/Richards song "As Tears Go By" in 1964. |
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