"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.

"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,

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.

Sarah Ferguson has revealed she went to "dark places" after being diagnosed with two different forms of cancer within months of each other. The Duchess of York, 65, told The Times: "It was hard. I'm generally a positive person but cancer is like a bomb going off in your life.