Judith Lucy

It will strike whenever it is ready.

And for comedian Judith Lucy, the moment cancer chose was just weeks before she launched her latest book, Auspiciously, all about a health journey she's been on.

She's spent the last few years trying ayahuasca, someone else's poo, MDMA and psilocybin therapies, all trying to cure the ailments and burnout that have haunted her for years.

Little over a month since she received an ominous call from the Breast Screening Centre, Judith is now booked in for a double mastectomy at the end of the week.

She is, of course, making everyone wee a little bit with laughter announcing it, and she is gracious enough to have made time for me today.

Judith Lucy, welcome to Life Matters.

Tegan, it's delightful to be here.

Is it? Well, no, nothing's really delightful just at this moment.

It damaged the wiring and ducting and one night crashed through the fan in the en suite bathroom and terrified us, thrashing and thumping about for hours until it finally managed to climb back into the roof." Well, I'll be back with you again tomorrow on Life Matters.

I'm going to be joined by Judith Lucy.

She's sharing about her breast cancer diagnosis that, in a twist of irony, has come just as she is releasing a book all about a quest for wellness.

That's Judith Lucy with me tomorrow on Life Matters.

Plus, how do kids' relationships with screens affect their relationships with books? It's actually not all bad, as you'll hear, and I'll be joined by Paul Harrison, our resident consumer behavior expert, to unpick why we spend money the way we do.

That's tomorrow on Life Matters.

And that's something that's been happening, publicity around Chrissie and the campaign that's involved a long list of wonderful female musicians from this country.

But also today, sorry, this week, I think it was this week, we learned that Judith Lucy revealed that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer, the comedian.

extraordinary.

Well, here after the break, Lucy explaining in her own words, as only she could, exactly what's happened.

And so I think, as I said, it's enormously generous but also really important when people openly are able to talk about their breast cancer experience.

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When we come back, your calls, 133 882, and we'll hear from Judith Lucy in her own words revealing her diagnosis.

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Well, there is a famous Australian comedian.

Her name is Judith Lucy, and she just posted recently, this week actually, on Instagram, her news about this.

On my way home, I got an email from Breast Screen Australia telling me that my mammogram result was a bit weird.

May I take this opportunity to say, ladies, keep up with your mammograms.

So today will clearly be a day where, you know, he's hoping to sleep in his own bed tonight, and we may get some more details about what did or didn't happen last weekend.

Um, Judith Lucy?

Yeah.

Did you see her piece to camera that she did where she announced that she has breast cancer? I mean, that is...

But you know, coping, her way of coping probably is humor.

It's a, a coping mechanism.

So, but what is it, though? You look at Judith Lucy there, you look at what Magda's going through, you look at what Denise Scott's been going through.

You know, they're like our M- Mount Rushmore of, uh, female comedians in Australia and of course it's reflective of the real, real world but it, it's, you know, it seems wrong.