‘This isn’t a poor-me story’: Piper Gilles opens up about her frightening experience with Ovarian cancer
Speaking over the phone, Piper Gilles exudes the same vulnerability and grace exhibited in her performances. Her tone ranges from soft to fierce, as the Canadian ice dancer reveals for the first time some deeply personal details of the past several months – a brush with ovarian cancer weaved through her best season on the ice.
Only a few people knew the extent of her surgery when she and Poirier returned to competition in March and repeated as bronze medalists at the world figure skating championships in Saitama, Japan. “I was like, ‘This is all manageable, I can do this at the end of the season, I can manage pain,’” Gilles recalls. “And the doctor was like, ‘Well, no, we need to get you in for surgery to get this out.’”
Skating felt like a nice distraction. She and Poirier not only took gold in Finland, but also at the Grand Prix final in Turin, Italy, in early December. “I knew that everything had been taken out of me,” she says. “But I didn’t know the risks of any of that coming back.”
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