RADIO host Dave “Hughesy” Hughes has shared a heartbreaking update on his mum’s health.
The comedian choked back tears as he revealed on 2Day FM’s Hughesy, Ed & Erin that it had been a “tough couple of weeks” for his family.
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He told his co-hosts Erin Molan and Ed Kavalee: “My mum’s unwell, and the family have gathered around her, and we’re celebrating her life.
“She’s still with us, but it won’t be long. She’s a beautiful woman who’s been a great matriarch of the family, and we’re all around her at the moment.”
Hughesy, 52, explained his family had been “going through photos” as his mum, Carmel Hughes, entered a sleep she “probably won’t wake up” from.
He shared: “Mum grew up in an orphanage, and there’s a photo of her teaching a class with nuns looking over her …
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“She had to leave the orphanage because she didn’t want to be a teacher, so she left with nothing and went and became a nurse, and met Dad.”
Hughesy tragically lost his dad, Des Hughes, to cancer in 2010.
He continued: “She’s been a beautiful mother, who really supports her children.
“Everyone goes through [losing their parents] … but the memories of all the sacrifice, and all the good times … She’s done so well in her life. We’ll miss her a lot.
“She’s always been stoic and never complained.”
The radio host praised his mum for keeping her sense of humour “until the end” and recalled some of his recent visits with her.
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He said: “We were around and didn’t think she could even speak again, and one of the nurses was lifting her and said, ‘I’m sorry if I drop you’, and Mum just whispered, ‘it doesn’t matter now’, and made the nurse laugh.
“My niece was by the side of the bed the other day, and her foot touched the bucket beside the bed, and Mum said, ‘I’m the one kicking the bucket, not you!’
“So she was still coming out with zingers … she’s a beautiful woman.”
Hughesy was last month left “traumatised” after being robbed by a “big man” while shopping for his family’s dinner.
He told listeners of his show about the moment someone grabbed his phone out of his hand, before eventually tossing it back to him.
His fill-in co-host Kate Langbroek, 58, told Hughesy he should have called the police.
She said at the time: “I know we’re all just like, ‘Oh, that’s just sort of how it rolls’.
“But when you start accepting dysfunction like that, then dysfunction will rule.”
In July, Hughesy’s co-host Erin Molan, 41, made headlines when she let slip a shocking confession on their breakfast show.
Hughesy grilled Erin: “Six times in one day you’re getting food delivered to your house?”
The DJ admitted she had, in one day, ordered a sausage and egg McMuffin, followed by a muffin and orange juice, a chicken schnitzel, potato scallops, and a salmon meal deal with chips.
She used her delivery apps a final time after realising her fish and chips were less salted than she had hoped and her shaker was all out.
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