Channel 10 star Barry Du Bois reveals what saved his life amid his ongoing cancer battle after he was told he had 'three months to live'
Barry Du Bois has revealed the the one thing which saved his life after he was given just 'three months to live' following a heartbreaking cancer diagnosis in 2017.
The Channel Ten star, 64, beat the odds when he was diagnosed with Plasmacytoma Myeloma—a rare and incurable cancer of the immune system.
Despite doctors giving him only months to live, Barry continues to live life to the fullest 16 years later and credits 'early detection' as his saving grace, he revealed on Jonesy & Amanda on Wednesday.
'Early detection is a really important thing,' he told Gold 101.7 hosts Brendan Jones and Amanda Keller.
'If you're not feeling that well physically, get it checked out. Get that blood test. An early blood test is one of the reasons I am here 16 years later.'
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'If I hadn't taken it up, then maybe three months later [death] would have happened. An early blood test is one of the things that saved me,' he continued.
It comes after the former Living Room host penned an emotional essay for The Gold Coast Bulletin on Tuesday, which detailed his journey with trauma, depression and incurable cancer.
The Sydney-born presenter said each painful chapter has helped him develop the positive mindset that keeps him going today.
'I was sitting in a cold, unfamiliar consult room at the hospital, my wife's hand holding mine... then a doctor who had known me for only a few hours looked me in the eye and told me I had three months to live,' he wrote.
But instead of accepting that grim prognosis, Barry leaned on something far stronger—his own lived experience.
'They were unaware I'd already been through things that break most people,' he added.
From falling 14 metres off a roof and breaking his back, to enduring years of IVF heartbreak with wife Leonie—including a devastating miscarriage—Barry has known profound physical and emotional pain.
He said he felt 'lost and empty' because 'anyone that loved me was being punished'.
Two weeks after their miscarriage, Leonie was diagnosed with cervical cancer. And while she stayed strong during treatment, Barry spiralled into depression.
'I avoided conversation and started a continual negative conversation with myself that took me into the darkness… depression is a lonely state and I refused to share my pain. I saw it as a weakness,' he wrote.
But it was Leonie who helped him find his way back.
Barry said his wife helped him find 'purpose, connection and a sense of belonging' again as he continues his battle against cancer.
He credits that period of reflection and emotional healing for giving him the strength to fight back when he was diagnosed with Plasmacytoma Myeloma in 2017.
'So when I got my diagnosis—incurable cancer, three months to live—I didn't fall apart... I knew that from leaning into the previous adversities of life I had the resilience to give the fight of my life.'
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