Footy star Jeremy Finlayson reveals a startling update about his wife Kellie's battle against terminal cancer

Port Adelaide forward Jeremy Finlayson has revealed his wife Kellie has ceased chemo and radiation therapy and is seeking alternative treatments as she continues to fight her brave battle with terminal cancer.

Kellie, 28, has battled bowel and lung cancer for more than two years after it emerged in November 2021 following the birth of her first child, Sophia.

Surgeries, chemotherapy and other treatments followed the news that her initial stage 3 diagnosis had been changed to stage 4.

In January 2024, Kellie started another six-month round of chemotherapy, but her husband has revealed that has now ceased.

The footy star indicated that his wife has stopped her chemotherapy and radiation treatments and has now put her trust in alternative medicine.

Kellie has previously said that both chemotherapy and all alternate therapies have worked to slow the spread of her cancer, which she said '100 per cent' robbed her of her first year of motherhood with Sophia.

'I've gone into early menopause. Whether I can come back from that, I don't know,' she said in March last year.

'That was honestly my biggest struggle, knowing that I may not give Sophia any siblings, which is so hard. We had always planned to have a big family.

'It's just something that I always wanted. It was the hardest pill to swallow out of all the pills I've swallowed in the last 18 months.

Earlier this month, Jeremy made headlines when he copped a three-week ban for using a homophobic slur at an Essendon player at Gather Round.

The remark was picked up on the on-field umpires' microphones but Finlayson subsequently self-reported the incident to the club and later apologised for his actions.

'Kellie's fighting for her life and for this to happen to her too when she's done nothing ... She's been more just supportive and we've talked about it a lot at home,' Finlayson told The Age.

'We've explained it to our daughter and even though she's only two she knows that Daddy is in trouble - that Daddy did something bad and that he used a naughty word. We need to keep explaining that to her as she grows up.'

Finlayson cannot properly explain why he said the remark - and thinking about it still keeps him up at night.

'Every day I wish I could take it all back,' he said. 

'It's hard to talk about even now, and I don't know who I've hurt or how many people. I have family members who are gay and friends who are gay.

'I've reached out to them all to try to explain I just said something so wrong in the heat of the moment.'

Earlier in the year Finlayson said the turmoil of the last few years taken its toll and impacted his football career.

'I've tried to put a brave face on through everything,' he said.

'Just looking at how strong Kellie is and just trying to be her rock and just trying to put a smile on her face out on the football ground for her and Soph.'

Kellie has remained a beacon of positivity throughout her treatment.

She is determined to enjoy however much life she has left and hopes to see as many of her daughter Sophia's milestones as possible.

'As long as (the cancer) is being maintained, I feel like I've got the potential to have quite a long life. I could see Sophia's 21st birthday!,' she told the Herald Sun.

'I hope I see her first day of school. That's still four years away and that's obviously not that long, but it's longer than I anticipated when I first heard the diagnosis.'