Jeopardy’s Alex Trebek suffered ‘massive’ depression and nearly gave up fighting during stage 4 cancer battle
Jeopardy’s Alex Trebek suffered ‘massive’ depression and nearly gave up fighting during stage 4 cancer battle NewsColony JEOPARDY! host Alex Trebek told his fans on Twitter that he almost gave up on life after his cancer diagnosis but is glad that he didn’t. With a one-year update, the 79-year-old told his fans that only 18 per cent of people diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer make it past the year – and he’s one of them. 2 Credit: Twitter He started the video by opening up about his struggle with the diagnosis. He said: “I’d be lying if I said that the journey was an easy one. There were some good days but a lot of not so good days. “I joked with friends that the cancer won’t kill me – the chemo treatments will. There were moments of great pain, days where certain bodily functions no longer function and sudden, massive attacks of depression that made me wonder if it was really fighting on. “But I brushed that aside quickly because that would have been a massive betr...