Joey Feek On Being ‘At Peace’ With Terminal Cancer: ‘I Don’t Fear Anything’

Joey Feek isn’t afraid of dying.

The country singer has been battling cervical cancer since 2014, and made the difficult decision to stop treatment in October when doctors told her she had roughly six to nine months to live.

Now in hospice care with an even graver prognosis, Joey told The Tennessean in an interview published on Saturday that she’s accepted her fate despite the harrowing circumstances.

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“I pray that one morning I just don’t wake up,” she said. “I don’t fear anything because I’m so close to God and we’ve talked about it so many times. I know he’s close. And I know he loves me. I’m really at peace. I still believe there’s healing in prayer.”

Joey, who makes up one half of the music duo Joey + Rory alongside her husband, told the paper that she’s never resented her situation – even when the cancer returned a year after she underwent an invasive hysterectomy.

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“I wasn’t mad at [God], I wasn’t upset,” she said. “I was just greatly disappointed. I really thought we had it. I thought, ‘I’m going to be that exception. I’m going to be that statistic that stands out and says, ‘She fought it.’ We did the most extreme surgery we can do in the gynecologic world, and she did well.’ But for whatever reason, it wasn’t enough, and God had different plans. I was disappointed. I was exhausted.”

The former “Can You Duet” contestant and mom to 2-year-old daughter Indiana then got emotional, according to the paper, when she discussed her darkest moments.

“More than anything, I felt like I failed at something. I thought I did everything,” she said.

Joey then explained the perspective she took to help ease her despair.

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“But God decided for me that my job of singing for people down here is my legacy, and he needs me singing up there. That’s how I look at it,” she added.

The 40-year-old has returned to her childhood home in Nashville to spend her last days in a comforting place surrounded by family, the paper reported.  

Joey recalled how she told her husband her final wishes.

“I said, Rory, if it’s OK with you, this is where I was born, it’s where I was raised, and this is where I die,” she said.

In the meantime, Joey has opted for natural remedies to relieve her physical discomfort as much as possible while she prepares to say goodbye.

“I’m doing all these alternative things and taking things I’ve never taken before, organic, all natural, and homeopathic, it can’t hurt,” she told The Tennessean. “I’m doing all I can do to be more comfortable.”

— Erin Biglow

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