Jade faces op to relieve pain

Cancer-stricken Jade Goody was tonight facing the prospect of an operation to relieve her “awful pain”, her publicist Max Clifford said.

The 27-year-old Big Brother star was set to be admitted to the Royal Marsden Hospital, in Fulham, south west London, after spending the day in agony, said Mr Clifford.

Goody has been given weeks to live after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

"She has a great deal of pain from her tummy and they don't seem to be able to get it under control,'' said Mr Clifford.

“She is going back to the Marsden. There’s likely to be further surgery tonight or tomorrow.

“I just had a very emotional phone call from her.”

Goody was taken to St Clare Hospice, in Hastingwood, near Harlow, Essex, on Friday night and had been due to return to her home, in nearby Upshire, tomorrow.

But Mr Clifford said doctors had explained that surgery was likely to be the best option.

“I think it’s just to get her out of this awful pain that she is in,” said Mr Clifford.

“When I spoke to her she said she might need further surgery. She says they’ve explained things to her and that’s what’s likely to happen. She said: ’Whatever gets me out of this pain’.”

Mr Clifford denied Goody’s admission to hospital was a setback in her battle against the disease.

“It’s a continuing process but we hope they will be able to get things under control,” he said.

“She wants to go home. She doesn’t want to be in hospital.”

He added: “She’s very frightened. She was sobbing on the phone to me. She said: ’Why can’t they get me out of all this pain?’.

“Hopefully that’s what they’re going to do.”

Mr Clifford said Goody was surrounded by friends at the hospice.

He said he believed her husband, Jack Tweed, 21, who she wed last Sunday, was watching the Carling Cup final between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur with one of Goody’s two sons.