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Former boxer Barry McGuigan excitedly remembered his “bubbly, happy, happy” daughter Danika ‘Nika’ McGuigan on tonight’s Late Late Show.
Anika passed away in July 2019 at just 33 years old after a battle with cancer returned, having previously been diagnosed with leukemia as a child.
Barry spoke about his loss on tonight’s show on RTÉ.
Danika worked as an actress and appeared in various television, film and stage productions, including the hit series Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope.
She died surrounded by her family, after going to see the doctor when she was not feeling well in 2019, despite the fact that the blood tests came out clear.
A scan found a large tumor in the liver and large intestine.
“Nika was the type to say if there’s bad news, I don’t want to hear how bad it is. I just want to know that I have a chance that … that she could improve.
“[The doctor] He said, ‘I’m sorry to tell you it’s really bad And Nika said, ‘Can I improve?’
And she shook her head. I remember someone grabbing my throat. I said, ‘You can improve. They told you that when you had leukemia, you couldn’t get better. ‘
Barry recalled that the family stayed with Nika until the end.
“We were there every day, she tried to be strong,” he recalled.
“He got up and walked since you walked up and down the hall a couple of times and then his organs started to fail.
“And then he lost consciousness on July 17, went into a coma. And then we were all around his bed when he took his last breath, ”he said.
“She knew how much we all loved her.”
He said his most recent grandson has Danika’s middle name, Mila Nika McGuigan.
“Every time I look at them, I think of her. Yes. And he loved those children. “
She recalled that when she was first diagnosed with cancer at age 11, Danika “wanted desperately to live.”
“She was an incredible fighter and she loved life and she desperately wanted to live and she wanted to be with her three brothers and with us.
“He got over it and had two and a half years, two years of chemotherapy.”
He recalled that his daughter was “very funny and witty,” with her father’s sense of humor.
“She was very talented and very funny and witty, and my father had a great sense of humor. Unfortunately I missed that part. But she was just a great girl. And we had fun and we loved practical jokes and we used to scare me to death, ”he recalled.
“It was always a great bubbly house, full of activity and full of life. And she was always a very happy, happy and cheerful girl. “
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