Sir Chris Hoy’s wife Lady Sarra has revealed the guilt she felt when she hid her own illness from her husband.As he battled stage 4 cancer, Lady Sarra Hoy discovered she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
But she didn't tell her husband Sir Chris because she felt “it wasn’t the right time” only to realise they “could cope much more than you think.”Shortly after Sir Chris’s terminal diagnosis, Lady Sarra had been diagnosed with the illness.
Explaining how she initially kept her diagnosis from her husband, she said: “It came completely out of the blue.“I always tell Chris everything and we are always each other’s crutch in everything in life so it was very against the grain to not share it with him but I just knew it wasn’t the right time.
We were trying to find stable ground having just been given this diagnosis from him.”Speaking in their first interview together, Lady Sarra told Cat Deeley and Dermot O’Leary on ITV’s This Morning: “It’s been tough, but actually, we’ve been able to do it together.