Jonathan Ross has opened up about one of his three children recently being diagnosed with fibromyalgia.
Fibromyalgia is a ‘long-term condition that causes pain all over the body’.
The TV host appeared on Good Morning Britain today and said that his family’s annual Halloween party has now been cancelled so they can care for their daughter Betty, 30 who has been diagnosed with the illness.
Jonathan said: “Really, it’s being cautious as much as anything.
“One of our children isn’t well, one of our children had Covid at the beginning of the pandemic and they thought she had long Covid, but it’s now been diagnosed as fibromyalgia which is quite debilitating, so she’s back home with us and we’re looking after her.
“She’s upstairs in the bedroom and I thought, ‘I can’t in good conscience have a big loud fun party downstairs and one of my children is locked in a room upstairs’. It would be like something out of a horror novel.
“So really, just out of a good conscience, we’re not going to do it, but hopefully next year we’ll be back.”
Betty is the eldest of Jonathan’s three children as he also has Harvey, 27, and Honey, 24.
Jonathan said: “We always have a couple of hundred people to the party and as you know, about half of them are from show-business.
“So if we had a party and it spread through that, we’d probably wipe out half the shows on TV for the next couple of weeks which I would not want to be guilty of.”
Betty spoke about her diagnosis on her Instagram page as she posted photos of her in a halter neck green top.
She said: “Fibromyalgia? I hardly know her! This is me letting y’all know I got a Fibromyalgia diagnosis.
“Shout out to the 4 people who all said they thought I had fibro, turns out y’all were right.
“To all my fellow fibromyalgia baddies, feel free to drop your fave fibro tips in the comments (I’ll be putting some in there, but I’m still new to the game so idk how helpful mine will be)”
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