Paul Mescal's Mother in Remission: Family Grateful Two Years After Cancer Diagnosis

Paul Mescal’s mother Dearbhla is in remission two years after being diagnosed with bone marrow cancer.

The Hollywood actor’s family was plunged into crisis in 2022 when Dearbhla, 55, was told she was battling multiple myeloma and needed to undergo treatment, but she’s now in remission and doesn’t have to undergo any more gruelling chemotherapy sessions.

Paul’s sister Nell told Sunday Times: ‘She’s currently in remission but the cancer that she has is never going to be gone, which is something that you have to learn to be OK with.

‘But, for now, she doesn’t have to do any more chemo. You have to feel grateful and I do.’

Dearbhla also gave an update on her condition in a candid post on Instagram, revealing she feels ‘lucky’ and ‘excited’ about the future.

Paul Mescal ‘s mother Dearbhla is in remission two years after being diagnosed with bone marrow cancer

The Hollywood actor’s family was plunged into crisis in 2022 when Dearbhla, 55, was told she was battling multiple myeloma and needed to undergo treatment

She wrote: ‘I AM IN REMISSION!!! I am blessed. Yes I will continue to take tablets, have blood tests but I am Dearbhla, just Dearbhla not Dearbhla with Cancer and I am lucky, joyous and feeling very, very excited about where my life will take me and oh the places I will go … ‘

She added: ‘Gratitude does not encompass all I feel for [the doctors and medical staff].

‘The love of my children, my husband, my family and dearest friends, the audience of you, the prayers of so many, the vibes sent out to the universe carried me through the hard times and lifted me when I truly felt done in.

‘My cup runneth over and my heart will forever hold yours. Thank you … now guys what’s next ???’

Normal People star Paul previously admitted he had a panic attack on set when he found out his mother had been diagnosed with cancer.

The actor, 28, was in the middle of shooting ‘All of Us Strangers’ with Andrew Scott, Claire Foy, and Jamie Bell and he struggled to cope with the news.

Normal People star Paul previously admitted he had a panic attack on set when he found out his mother had been diagnosed with cancer

Speaking to Esquire UK, he explained: ‘I think I kind of pushed it under the carpet for a bit when we found out.

Then there was a bad old day when we were setting up to do a shot and I had a panic attack, and I haven’t had one of those in f****** years.

‘That was probably the biggest one I’ve had, to be honest. It’s embarrassing – not that I think they are embarrassing – but there was just something very public about it.

‘I think I was like, ‘I just don’t have the space to feel anything now, and I’m probably feeling it in the work itself’, but then there’s only so much of that that’s healthy. I think my body was like, ‘No. You’ve got to feel something here that’s your own’.’

What is multiple myeloma?

Multiple myeloma is a cancer that begins to form in bone marrow.

While plasma cells ordinary help the body fight infection, in people with multiple myeloma the cells that live inside soft marrow rapidly develop to cause tumors in hard marrow.

As it causes the tough bone to weaken it makes it difficult to develop good blood cells and platelets.

There is no cure for the rare form of blood cancer.

As the second most common cancer in the United States, approximately 30,000 African Americans are diagnosed with multiple myeloma each year. Unexplainably, black people are twice more likely to develop the disease than white people.

Some medical experts believe that occupational exposure can play a part in developing the disease. Sufferers with jobs that expose people to petroleum, herbicides, heavy metals and an extensive list of other things have a higher likelihood or developing the blood cancer.

Most people who suffer from the disease are over 45 years old (96 percent). Over 65s are 63 percent of the group.

Men are more likely to have multiple myeloma.

Those with a family history of it are four times more at risk. People considered obese are also at higher risk.

Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) has also been linked.

While MGUS – the development of abnormal monoclonal protein produced by white blood cells – can be considered unproblematic, some have linked it to multiple myeloma.

Strong cancer treatments such as surgery, radiation therapy, stem cell transplants and various drugs can help those living with multiple myeloma live a longer life.

Complications can include anemia, kidney failure, dangerously high levels of calcium in the blood, organ infection and fractures or a loss of movement.