Strong: Life, loss and eternal love for my daughter

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He charts his journey in memoir Strong, from his upbringing and career as a professional footballer for clubs including Coventry City cut short by injury, to a reality star who has appeared in Ex On The Beach, SAS: Who Dares Wins and BBC's Go Hard Or Go Home. What I was doing was faking a lot. There was a facade, to climb the ladder. But when you are in the pits, it’s very hard to survive if you are still lying to yourself. That’s what changed about me. For once in my life I was true to myself.

Strong is the moving and heartbreaking memoir from celebrity campaigner, endurance athlete, and father of an angel, Ashley Cain. Charting his daughter's birth and the fight for her life when she was diagnosed with leukaemia at 7 weeks old, Ashley reflects on his life and his own struggles since Azaylia's passing in 2021. I isolate myself a lot with the extreme challenges that I do, so I spend a lot of time thinking about Azaylia and connecting with her. The couple gave some sobering statistics: one child in every school has cancer, there are 16 families every day getting used to the battle of cancer, and in the last 20 years there have only been three new treatments for children with cancer. We tried everything to save her life,” says Ashley, tearfully. “There wasn’t an option that we didn’t explore. When she was going through The eight month-old sadly lost her inspirational battle at the family home in Nuneaton on April 24 this year.He said: "It was important for me to take on this boxing challenge because my daughter fought a heroic battle against cancer on this earth for eight months. Her dad Ashley Cain and mum Safiyya Vorajee brought the inspirational eight-month-old out to their driveway so they could marvel at the skyline tribute. On Good Morning Britain this morning, Ashley spoke about his latest challenge for the charity- riding across Europe Two years on, the grief of losing his ‘little lion' daughter, who was given chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant before succumbing to the disease, has not dimmed.

Despite still coming to terms with their unimaginable grief her parents set up a charity Azaylia Foundation as a legacy to her.Azaylia taught him to be the man he wanted to be, he says, but he can't see himself having another child. The iconic London attraction turned orange in honour of the eight-month -old and to mark World AML (Acute Myeloid Leukaemia) Day. Cain has made it his calling to be truthful. He also hopes that through his work with the foundation and his fundraising challenges, he's continuing his daughter's legacy by helping other children fight cancer. It said: "After a devastating and heartbreaking year, Safiyya and I decided to separate a few months ago.

I love my daughter that much that I effectively put myself through hell every single day to make her proud. And to show to people that no matter what you have been through, there is light.” In February last year, after months of treatment, the family was excited to be taking Azaylia home and were given the chance to ring the bell at the hospital. However, ten minutes before they were due to ring the bell, the family received the news that her Leukaemia had returned. He read his daughter's eulogy at her funeral. “It was one of the most difficult things I've ever had to do,” he says, voice faltering with emotion. “I thought, how can I write the words to describe how incredible Azaylia was, how impactful she was to my life, and the man I want to be because of Azaylia?”A tearful Safiyya said: "The morning we woke up, it was a really difficult morning, because I woke up with a feeling, I don't know, they say it is a mother's instinct, but I thought 'today was the last day'. When you have that feeling for the first time in your life, knowing who you are, knowing you have resources to be able to do something about it, that’s a pretty big responsibility. Ciara Lloyd, editorial director, acquired world rights from David Riding at MBA Literary Agents with Jim Erwood and Jason Brightman at Off Limits Entertainment. Football took him to Romania in June 2012 when he signed for CS Gaz Metan Mediaș after a successful trial period. Sadly, this proved to be the start of what would be the end of his football career as he suffered a complete rupture of his right Achilles tendon pre-season and he was unable to play for a season. Returning to England for treatment.