Ellen DeGeneres Surprises Top Chef's Fatima Ali with $50000 After She Was Given a Year to Live Ellen DeGeneres is helping Fatima Ali â...
Ellen DeGeneres is helping Fatima Aliâs dreams come true.
The Top Chef contestant revealed last month that her cancer had returned âwith a vengeanceâ and that doctors told her she had about a year left to live, so she was going to spend it visiting the worldâs best restaurants and crossing things off her bucket list. She accomplished one of her first goals when she got the chance to meet DeGeneres (and DJ tWitch) on her show.

In the clip above from Fridayâs episode, Ali spoke of first receiving her diagnosis of the rare form of bone cancer Ewingâs Sarcoma last year. âIt was obviously incredibly jarring,â she said. âIt was the biggest shock of my life, but I knew that the only way I was going to beat this was through positivity and rallying the people around me.â
Ali told PEOPLE at the Aspen Food & Wine Festival in July that she was âtechnically cancer-freeâ but was undergoing two additional months on chemotherapy to help prevent it from returning. But in September, the chef said she felt âan ache in my left hip and I had this nagging feeling that something wasnât right,â she told DeGeneres.
The Top Chef fan-favorite went in for a PET scan and received the devastating news. âMy doctors sat us and down, and they were like, âLook the cancer is back, itâs metastasized. The chemo has not worked,'â she recalled. âI looked at my doctor and I was like, âTell me straight. How long do I have? He was like, âA year.'â
âItâs crazy,â she continued. âBut life is crazy.â
Ali said that while seeking treatment the past 14 months, she often found comfort in watching Ellen, so just getting to meet the host was a huge deal for her. But DeGeneres took things one step further when she gifted her ânew best friendâ with $50,000 courtesy of Shutterfly to help her travel the world.
Aliâs Top Chef costars previously set up a GoFundMe campaign. She will receive 100% of the money raised and anything she does not use will go towards the Sarcoma Foundation of America.
Source: Google News US Entertainment | Netizen 24 United States
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