In March 2010, Andy Whitfield was making ready to shoot the second one season of the tv collection "Spartacus" whilst he was identified with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The Welsh born actor was informed that, given his age and fitness, with treatment, there has been each and every wish for a whole restoration. He right away started chemotherapy and 6 weeks after the final session, a experiment found out the most cancers was gone. 

But no longer for long. 

That September, a regimen bodily confirmed a small infected lymph node, and a biopsy showed that the most cancers had again. This time the diagnosis was no longer so constructive. The remedy was an aggressive, debilitating type of chemotherapy. Radiotherapy periods adopted which left the as soon as buff actor so susceptible he couldn’t stroll. Whitfield died closing September on the age of 39, forsaking his trustworthy spouse Vashti and children, Jesse, 7 and Indigo, 4.

When Whitfield was first diagnosed, he agreed to participate in a documentary chronicling his adventure. The documentary "Be Right here Now" has handiest in part been finished, and the filmmakers and Vashti Whitfield was looking to elevate the finances to complete Andy’s tale. Vashti spoke to FOX411 concerning the her husband's sickness and the movie project.

FOX411: Why did Andy do that documentary?

Vashti Whitfield: He idea he had conquered most cancers after which it got here again and he couldn’t have in mind why it had come back, so he desired to do one thing with it and proportion his adventure within the hopes that it could supply it extra goal. That expectantly it would be of use to any person facing the similar process.

You must understand that while he were given most cancers once more we weren’t of the mind-set that he was loss of life. We went into it with each and every chance that he might pop out. It was very past due within the day that that wasn’t glaring. I’m moderately astounded by folks saying, ‘Why have you ever performed this? Why didn’t you need it extra private?’ Andy and that i had been greatly of the philosophy that in the event you can proportion what’s happening for you and reinforce the standard of alternative people’s lives, then that’s what you do, and until it was completely vital to not movie for well being reasons, or we weren’t allowed, then we filmed.

"I introduced within the youngsters and lifted them up and he stated to them, ‘My frame doesn’t paintings anymore. SIMILAR TO a butterfly that has a damaged wing'"

- Vashti Whitfield

FOX411: Explain the identify "Be Right here Now."

VW: The day earlier than he was to move for his insurance coverage checking out earlier than filming Season 2 [of 'Spartacus'] he and that i had been at our favourite eating place in New Zealand, and he was feeling somewhat anxious approximately what the effects could be. He said, ‘I’ve all the time desired to get a tattoo,’ and thanks to treatment, he hadn’t been ready to, and that i said, ‘I’ve been eager about getting a tattoo,’ so went and were given ‘Be Right here Now’ with the context that regardless of the outcome, all you've got is now. Be right here now within the provide and that’s all you are able to do truly on an afternoon to day basis.

FOX411: How did he say good-bye on your children?

VW: He was very incoherent. It was the ultimate couple of days of his life, so he was out and in of lucidity. I stated to him, ‘This is the place you must say good-bye to the children and also you want them to grasp that you’re now not coming back.’ So I introduced within the children and lifted them up and he stated to them, ‘My frame doesn’t paintings anymore. SIMILAR TO a butterfly that has a damaged wing and can’t fly anymore and it was time for him to head and each time they see a butterfly a good way to be him. And now he needed to visit sleep, and while he went to sleep his frame wouldn’t paintings anymore, and the following time they noticed him, he’d be a butterfly flapping around.’

FOX411: How are you doing?

VW: I’m in fact thriving. I’m an organization believer that once you’ve had one thing strange like this happen, you do one thing with it. You could have the chance to are living so that you get the hell on with it. That’s to not say you don’t have down days. Giving interviews, I’m having to move via numerous stuff I’ve positioned at the back of me, so that’s relatively difficult simply because it’s like starting an antique wound. Rather then that it’s given my lifestyles much more function. I’m completely obligated to my little monkeys and to Andy to stay a rocket up my arse and do one thing significant with my lifestyles and proceed Andy’s legacy.

FOX411: Did he undergo the degrees of dying?

VW: He without a doubt went throughout the levels of desirous to struggle it, however then while you notice you can’t stroll anymore, you’re no longer okay, and you've got to come back to phrases with it and it’s not a combat and also you all at once grow to be at peace with going ,and I BELIEVE sooner than he went he discovered a spot that he was alright to say, ‘I’m done.’

FOX411: He was lucky to have you ever by his facet the entire method together with while he passed.

VW: Death is essential. You have to see any individual out in an overly stunning means. Being in the ones moments with the frame of the person who's the daddy of my youngsters and my ally and maintaining this body, however there’s no signal of the person in it anymore, in impact what you’re doing is seeing his frame out. For me, I noticed Andy go out the construction a couple of days earlier than. It’s an overly attention-grabbing process, and a lovely one, and a heartbreaking one.

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