Former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin was seen caring for her boyfriend, New York Rangers legend Ron Duguayamid the athlete’s battle with most cancers.
In an Instagram video shared by Duguay’s daughter, Shay Thomason Tuesday, February 24, Palin, 62, was filmed feeding spoonfuls of meals to Duguay, 68, as he rested in a hospital mattress. The politician was additionally tagged within the video by Thomas.
The footage was shared the identical day that Thomas and her sister, Amber Stavroswhom Duguay shares with ex-wife Robin Bobolaunched a GoFundMe web page to lift funds for the previous ice hockey participant’s ongoing most cancers therapy.
Palin, who started relationship Duguay in 2022, was featured a second time inside Thomas’ video, posing alongside her boyfriend because the pair smiled for a selfie. The clip in any other case targeted on Duguay’s most cancers journey, compiling photographs and movies that confirmed the athlete present process diversified remedies throughout a number of hospital visits.
David Livingston/Getty Pictures Since going public with stage III non-Hodgkin lymphoma in November 2024, Dave Coulier has been candid about his sickness, therapy and prognosis earlier than his second analysis. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a sort of most cancers that impacts the affected person’s lymphatic system, with “white blood cells known as lymphocytes (that) develop abnormally and might type growths (…)
Web page Six reported on Tuesday that Duguay was identified with Stage 4 most cancers that “began within the colon.” The analysis was introduced a few 12 months in the past, per the outlet.
Us Weekly has reached out to Duguay for remark.
Thomas supplied additional perception into the household’s latest experiences through the publish’s caption. “Replace on my dad @ronduguay10. One of many hardest issues we’ve realized by means of this journey is that most cancers doesn’t combat honest. Simply while you suppose you’ve discovered one thing that’s working, simply when hope begins to develop once more, it tries to indicate up elsewhere. It forces you to maintain pivoting, preserve adjusting remedies, and preserve altering cocktails and protocols,” the mom-of-three wrote.
Ron Duguay and Sarah Palin
Courtesy of Shay Thomas/Instagram“Most cancers wears on you mentally, emotionally, and bodily. The highs carry hope, the lows can really feel overwhelming. However by means of all of it, my dad retains displaying up. And greater than something, he retains leaning on God.”
Thomas, whose GoFundMe goal of $50,000 had soared previous the midway level (roughly $28,400) on the time of publication, then detailed the assorted remedies her father had undertaken within the hope of attacking cancerous cells.
“He’s doing all the things he presumably can … from dwelling antioxidant water, blood ozone remedy, IV vitamin drips, ivermectin, methylene blue, and numerous holistic approaches, whereas additionally persevering with (Californian hospital) Metropolis of Hope’s chemo protocol and present process main surgical procedure on each his liver and colon,” she detailed. “He’s all in. Each single day. And thru all of it, his religion has by no means wavered.”
Palin has largely saved her romance with Duguay away from the general public eye, nevertheless the pair have attended public occasions collectively prior to now, together with the “Save America” rally in Anchorage, Alaska, in July 2022. The New York Put up additionally printed photographs of the pair linking arms whereas attending a Rangers sport in New York Metropolis in April 2025.
Palin, who divorced Todd Palin in 2020 after greater than three many years of marriage, advised the Put up in 2022 that her relationship with Duguay was “secure and cozy.”
Whereas addressing her 2017 defamation lawsuit in opposition to The New York Occasions — which alleged that the NOW incorrectly linked her political committee to a 2011 mass capturing (the lawsuit was dismissed in 2022 and an enchantment additionally discovered the NOW not liable in 2025) — Palin advised the Put up that Duguay served as a wholesome distraction all through the ordeal.
“Ron is the primary person who I’ve ever even talked to about lots of this private stuff. So it’s been useful and refreshing to have Ron to speak to about not simply politics, as a result of he’s bought extra frequent sense in his little finger than the collective in D.C., however nearly life,” she mentioned earlier than including that her boyfriend was “actually good-looking.”