"One diagnosis is enough to deal with, but I had two in the space of a year," the Duchess of York said Sarah Ferguson is recalling the shock of navigating two cancer diagnoses within one year after the challenging chapter.

On the last day of 2023, Ferguson announced in a triumphant post on Instagram that she “beat breast cancer.” But a few weeks later, she revealed a new cancer diagnosis when she announced that she was battling malignant melanoma, an aggressive type of skin cancer.

"I’m generally a positive person but cancer is like a bomb going off in your life." Sarah Ferguson is getting candid about her back-to-back battles with cancer. In a new interview with The Times published on Friday,

After bravely facing two life-changing battles with cancer, Sarah Ferguson has opened up about the difficulty of facing such a daunting challenge, comparing it to "a bomb going off in your life".

Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, admitted her "mind went to some dark places" after she was diagnosed with breast cancer and skin cancer in the space of approximately seven months

Sarah Ferguson has revealed that having cancer was like a “bomb going off” in her life during a recent interview with The Times. The duchess, 65, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023 and underwent a single mastectomy. As she was recovering, she was then diagnosed with cancer again.