Just two weeks after she revealed
how her family was cursed by the disease, Angelina Jolie's aunt is in a coma
dying of cancer.
Debbie Martin, 61, is seen by
the actress as an "unsung heroine" behind the scenes of her decision
to have a double mastectomy.
Jolie spent Friday waiting
anxiously for news after doctors switched off Martin's life-support machine,
the Mirror reported.
Husband Ronald, who has been
by Debbie's hospital bed since she collapsed at home on Wednesday, told the
Sunday People, "she had a seizure and we took her into the hospital."
A source close to the family
said that the Hollywood star was very close to her aunt and she did everything
she could do to help her.
Martin was very supportive of
Jolie's decision to have preventative surgery, the source said.
Martin knew she had the same
potentially lethal gene that prompted her famous niece to have the operation on
her breasts.
But she stopped short of that
and just had a procedure on her ovaries because the DNA can make the disease
strike there too.
Jolie plans to have that
second operation before she is 40. (Source)
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