BBC Radio 2 DJ gets diagnosis and 'only has finite amount of time left'

Johnnie Walker has spoken about his terminal illness, sharing that doctors warned he could "die at any moment". The BBC Radio 2 DJ and legend shared how he has "only a finite amount of time left" as he shared a health update on his terminal illness.

Johnnie receives constant care from his wife at home after being diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, which is a condition where inflation of the lungs means breathing becomes difficult. Wife Tiggy told BBC Sounds this week: "I’m so tired.

"Sometimes I find it hard to go on." Medical consultants and NHS doctors told the couple that Johnnie should "prepare to go at any moment". Tiggy added: "It was only by going to the doctors and going on antidepressants that I have kept going.

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"Because I was crying every single day and I was overwhelmed by the sheer enormity of everything I had to do." Johnnie admitted he has "only a finite amount of time left here in the physical before I pass over".

He praised Tiggy during Carers Week, saying she "very lovingly helps me get into bed and gives me a nice kiss good night, and then she has to wonder whether I’m still going to be alive in the morning, which must be pretty hard for her".

"Your love was just so sustaining, it gave me so much to look forward to. And your caring for me now makes my life so much better," he said. The radio show host and his wife opened up about what the health battle has been like.

He said on the programme: "Obviously we're in separate rooms because the oxygen machine is quite noisy, it would keep Tiggy awake. She has to wonder whether I'm still going to be alive in the morning which must be very hard for her."