You are a phenomenal, beautiful woman in every way.

"I don't try to be like people who have had life-threatening illnesses and say, ‘Every day is a gift.' But everything that happens from now on is lagniappe, as we say in the Gulf.""It was my 50th birthday celebration, and Amber [Laign] had heard me moaning and groaning about some kind of party," she recalls.

I return every one of them to you 100 fold,” Roberts continued.

“On this last Sunday of 2013 I encourage you to reflect on what you are grateful for too.”Earlier this month, Olympic diver Tom Daley came out in a You Tube video, revealing he is in a relationship with a man. He opened up about a same-sex relationship he had when he was 19 years old.

Roberts, 53, certainly knows that to be true, based upon her personal experience of life.

Probably everyone’s initial reaction on being told they have cancer is — Why me? As she was dealing with that, and its aftermath, she was told in 2012 that she was also suffering from a very rare condition called myelodysplastic syndrome, which affects the bone marrow.