Sarah Beeny reveals her marriage to Graham Swift is hanging on by fingernails after breast cancer

Sarah Beeny reveals her marriage to Graham Swift is 'hanging on by fingernails' after breast cancer battle and admits they stayed together for sake of their children

Sarah Beeny has revealed her marriage to husband Graham Swift is 'hanging on by fingernails' after her breast cancer battle in a candid new interview.

The TV presenter, 51, was given the all clear in April 2023 and in June she released her documentary Sarah Beeny vs. Cancer which detailed her cancer journey including her double mastectomy.

Now Sarah has reflected on her relationship with artist Graham saying they have both admitted they stayed together for their teenage kids
They share four children, sons Billy, 18, Charlie, 16, Rafferty, 14, and Laurie, 12.

Speaking on the The Mid.Point podcast with Gabby Logan, Sarah admitted: 'We're hanging on in there by our fingernails. I mean, it's not easy, is it
Graham always said, 'the day we have to work at our marriage, I'm going to leave'.

'And I was like, 'really?' But I think he has had to work at it to be honest.'

The star then admitted: 'I was being particularly horrible, because I have been a bit horrible in the last couple of years to be honest at times.

'I was being particularly horrible and he said, 'you know the thing is Sarah, you're not prepared to leave and have your children half the time, and neither am I, so we're going to stay together.

'And we're going to stay together happily or unhappily, so which would you like it to be?'

'And I was like, oh that is quite dark, isn't it?

'He said 'you wanna be happy or unhappy, because either way we're still going to live together', so I was like, 'OK we'll do happy then, shall we?' he was like, 'what a good idea.

'Maybe you should be a bit nicer?' I was like, 'yeah alright I will.' So logical, isn't it?'
Sarah also told how she spoke about their issues with her older brother Diccon who gave her some firm but fair advice.

She said: 'I rang my brother … and said, 'right that's it, Graham's being so annoying, I think we're going to split up,' and he listened to me for ages, yeah, yeah, yeah, he said, 'I get it Sarah, it must be horrendous being married to him.

'The only thing I think that could be worse is being married to you.' So I suggest you go and make up! So all is well.'

The pair married in 2002 after meeting on a blind date when she was just 18.

Also in the podcast chat Sarah revealed that she didn't even want to mention her breast cancer battle in her new book.

She released her memoir The Simple Life: How I Found Home this year but has now told how she wanted to omit her health issues as she was reluctant for her cancer to be the 'defining thing in her life.

She said of the book: 'It's a funny journey and in some ways, it feels like I didn't want it to be the defining thing in my life.

'I didn't want to be 'Sarah Beeny had cancer'. I actually asked the publishers if I could not put it in and they said, 'no, that's not really going to work not putting it in'. I was like, 'really? Are you sure we have to put in?'.'

She added of how she dealt with her diagnosis and battle: 'My friends laugh about it, but they say that my coping mechanism is to pick up the carpet and sweep everything underneath and then pop it back down and then move on.

'I'm not saying it's how anyone else should be, it isn't; I'm sure many people would say that's terrible, and you should process it.

'We all own our own edit, I always think that's kind the interesting thing in a way about life; I've been lucky enough to live on the planet 51 years and I couldn't tell you anything about my life without taking 51 years to tell you about it, so I have to edit it down.

'Then you choose what you want to edit in and edit out, and I kind of like to edit in the good bits.

'I didn't really think cancer was a good bit, so I thought I would prefer to edit out, so when I wrote the book, I intentionally kept it to one chapter which I thought that way, you could just not read that chapter if you didn't want to.'

She also told how she had never imaged living past the age of 39 after her mother Ann died at that age from the same kind of cancer.

Sarah said: 'When I got my diagnosis, it was something that I'd always imagined I would get in a way, and yet dreaded at the same time.

'So, she died when she was 39, when I got to 40, I had a little tiny bit of a crisis because I was like, 'well, what do I do now?' It wasn't like I thought I was going to die. I just couldn't picture life past 39, so I got to 40 and was like, 'God, this is really weird, now what do you do?'.'

It comes after recently Sarah revealed she's undergone gene testing to determine her family's risk of developing cancer, after her own battle with the disease.

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