An emotional moment on last night’s episode of The Project had the nation cheering for host Carrie Bickmore and her incredible success.
The mother-of-two broke down in tears when she announced that her charity, Carrie’s Beanies 4 Brain Cancer, had raised more than $1 million.
The incredible milestone was reached in less than a year after the host announced the foundation.
“Last year I launched Carrie’s Beanies 4 Brain Cancer with the goal to try and raise $1 million for brain cancer research,” she began.
“And because of your generosity, we have already reached our million dollars — $1.1 million. So, thank you, thank you, thank you. I am just so blown away about that.”
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The 35-year-old went on to thank each person who contributed to the incredible cause as images flashed across the screen, which fell into place making up a collage of her late husband Greg Lange.
“To each and every one of you who have bought a beanie, seeing all the pics coming up on social media, families and babies and kids and, you know, I don’t know any of you, but I feel like I know you all,” she said through tears.
“The image we’re about to see now, that is of my late husband, Greg, and he is the reason that I did this.”
“I want to say to anybody who is suffering from brain cancer right now, we will use this money, and I will use it to try and make your future brighter, so that is what I promise you we’ll do.”
The star was touched by the nation’s response.
The TV personality’s charity, Carrie’s Beanies 4 Brain Cancer, was founded in November, just a few months after she used her Gold Logie acceptance speech to raise awareness for the illness, and call upon fellow famous faces to proudly don a beanie on air.
“I’m going to use the two minutes that I have up here to talk about something incredibly close to my heart. I want to talk to you about brain cancer,” the award winner said in her memorable speech, her voice shaking.
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The Project host shared this sobering fact, “Every five hours someone is diagnosed with brain cancer and 8 out of 10 people diagnosed will die.”
“In 2010 my husband Greg was one of the unlucky ones and after a long, long, long battle he died from brain cancer,” she said.
“Over ten years I watched him suffer multiple seizures a day, lose feeling down one side of his body, saw his three-year-old push him in his wheelchair because he couldn’t walk anymore,” she told the famous faces in the audience.
Greg and Carrie’s son Oliver is now eight-years-old.
The journalist was barely able to hold back tears when she spoke about her son Oliver’s father.
“He was an incredibly brave man, he was a great dad, he was a great husband, he was a great brother and he was a great friend but he shouldn’t have had to go through that.”
“Throughout his cancer journey he used to wear a lot of beanies, and that was because he was embarrassed about his scars, but beanies are cool,” the talented star quipped, placing a bright blue beanie on her head.
The three-time Logie winner finished her speech with a moving dedication: “I want to dedicate this award to anyone who is going through a really s–t time right now, anyone who is supporting someone through a really tough time right now, please believe that there will be a brighter day for you.”
Congratulations, Carrie! We are so proud of you.
No doubt Carrie feels incredibly proud for reaching such a huge milestone.
