Andrew Le Page has revealed how he was devastatingly told by doctors that he had a brain tumour when he was just 20 years old.
The former Love Island finalist, 27, told how he was diagnosed with a brain tumour after his older brother Adam urged him to get a lump on his head checked.
He detailed his health scare while speaking to his girlfriend Tasha Ghouri, 23, on her podcast Superpowers With Tasha, which sees her interview empowering people.
On the podcast, Andrew detailed the ‘really scary’ experience of doctors telling him he had a brain tumour after he discovered a lump on his skull.
He told how he hadn’t planned to get the lump checked, as he thought it was part of his skull, but did so after his brother Adam called the doctor on his behalf.
Health scare: Andrew Le Page has revealed how he was devastatingly told by doctors that he had a brain tumour when he was just 20 years old
He said: ‘So I had like a lump on my head for like a few years, and my brother felt it and was like “Andrew, what is that?” and I was like “I don’t know, I’ve had it for a while”.
‘Then and there, he called up the doctor and got me an appointment and I had an MRI, then went back to the doctors again, and they told me I had this brain tumour.’
Andrew told how he was left in tears at the devastating news, adding: ‘I went back into my car, started crying, and literally went back to work that afternoon.
‘They all knew I’d gone to the doctor’s for it, and they were like “how’d it go?” and I couldn’t speak.
‘Eventually one of my colleagues went to my boss and said “I think Andrew needs to go home and process this”.’
Andrew said within a few weeks, he had flown over to London from his native Guernsey to have the tumour removed as he detailed the health scare.
He went on: ‘It was scary, really scary. Like this is major, having a brain tumour at 20. Within two weeks, I flew to London and had it removed, but at the time it was so scary, like what could have been.
‘Luckily my brother called the doctor cos I would have left it. I thought it was part of my skull, and it was big as well. At the time it was so scary and I was crying and I couldn’t speak to my colleagues, it was like that.
Terrifying: The former Love Island finalist, 27, told how he was diagnosed with a brain tumour after his older brother Adam urged him to get a lump checked on his head
Candid: He detailed his health scare while speaking to his girlfriend Tasha Ghouri , 23, on her podcast Superpowers With Tasha, which sees her interview ’empowering people’
‘So I got that removed, within a month of it all happening. Luckily, I’m all good.’
Andrew, who met his girlfriend Tasha on Love Island in 2022, admitted he never thought he would ever be diagnosed with a tumour, describing it as a ‘close call’.
‘I was just really terrified, I was so scared and I didn’t know how to tell anyone. I told my mum and dad straight away obviously and my brother,’ he explained.
‘I was crying and I was so upset like “what the hell, I can’t believe this has now happened at such a young age. I thought it would be something I’d never go through.
‘When you’re young, you always think I’m invincible, I’ll live forever and I’ll be able to run forever and do this forever. But then at 20 I thought this is ridiculous. Why me, you always think, why me?’
Andrew admitted the health scare made him live his life to the fullest, saying it inspired him to pursue a career as a personal trainer and move to Dubai.
‘From then, I was like I’ve just got to live my life. After the surgery and it was fine, I thought that was a close call and I’ve got to enjoy my life as much as I can now,’ he added.
‘It was tough while I was doing it, but it all worked out for the best.’
Elsewhere in the podcast, Andrew also detailed his struggles with dyslexia and told how his hopes of being a professional hockey player were hampered by an injury.
He spoke to his girlfriend Tasha, who is deaf and has a cochlear implant, about how he had caused permanent damage to his knee, which meant he couldn’t continue with the sport after years of training.
The name of Tasha’s podcast, Superpowers with Tasha, references the former Love Island star referring to her deafness her ‘superpower’ in inspiring comments.
Tasha was born completely deaf and her parents found out when she was 12 months old, after which she got a cochlear implant when she was five, having been using fluent sign language as her only way of being able to communicate until then.
Struggles: Andrew, who met his girlfriend Tasha (both pictured) on Love Island in 2022, said he never thought he would ever be diagnosed with a tumour, describing it as a ‘close call’
Superpower: Tasha was born completely deaf and her parents found out when she was 12 months old, after which she got a cochlear implant when she was five
Appearing on Good Morning Britain, she was recently asked how her parents coped with watching her on the show due to her deafness and how she was treated by others.
She said: ‘For my parents it was hard, they really had to go through that emotional experience with me.
‘I don’t like ableism as well and they had to deal with that… it was really hard to get that education across, it’s really hard when trying to find love.’
On being the first deaf contestant, she said: ‘I was so nervous, I was literally petrified. I nervous how people will react in the villa and on the outside…
‘I was thinking ‘am i really doing this now?’. My main purpose was to find love, which I did, and to be a representative for deaf people.’
Gushing over her boyfriend Andrew, she added: ‘Love Island, it worked for me. Andrew’s such a great person, so lucky to find someone that accepts me for me. Nice to see him followed by the deaf community too’.
