Great British Bake Off legend Sue Perkins has opened up about the devastating effects of a brain tumour which left her brain “shaken like a snowglobe”. Although the tumour, which she was diagnosed with in her 30s, is totally benign, it is still wreaking havoc on her at the age of 54.
Taking to Twitter (X), the presenter and comedian lamented: “My brain’s like a shaken snow-globe. All flurry and no settle. I wish it had some dopamine in it – then I could focus and remember things and not be a scatty f***.
“I hate pituitary tumours and I’m sending love if you’ve got one in your head. They are infuriating!” According to the Brain Tumour Charity, benign pituitary tumours are typically slow-growing and often “harmless”, but come with a host of unpleasant symptoms.
The NHS website elaborates that sufferers can experience headaches, nausea and vomiting, personality changes, vision and speech problems and even seizures. Sue has revealed that she is taking dopamine medication to help with some of the more difficult symptoms, but that she is still suffering.
Meanwhile, even benign tumours can sometimes cause infertility – an issue which Sue revealed she has experienced herself. She confided in Lorraine Kelly about her diagnosis, admitting that it had felt like a “bereavement” when she realised she would probably never give birth to her own children.
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“I might have been able to have kids had I undergone [fertility] treatment, [as] there are some hardcore meds that you can take, but it was at that point in my life where I was cusping anyway on being perhaps a little too old,” she explained.
Talking of the tumour and its impact, she told Desert Island Discs presenter Kirsty Young that she had “literally destroyed” her life “from the inside out”.
“I always like to think that I’m accountable for everything that I do, but I’ll never understand how I did some of the things I did,” she revealed incredulously.
“I walked out of my life. I ended a relationship.”
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Sue chose not to reveal her diagnosis publicly until 2015, and viewers of some of her most enthralling earlier shows may have been totally unaware that there were any struggles beneath the surface.
The star, whose Netflix series Perfectly Legal is streaming now, has been well-known for numerous TV adventures besides Bake Off.
One of her memorable moments includes travelling with adventurer Charley Boorman on some potentially treacherous routes for the BBC Two show World’s Most Dangerous Roads.
These included a high-altitude road trip in Bolivia, avalanche-prone roads in Alaska and even Siberia’s infamous Road of Bones, named so after the thousands of prisoners who died building it.
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