{"id":832477,"date":"2026-07-30T02:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832477\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T02:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:08:12","slug":"real-housewives-of-orange-countys-jeana-keough-cant-talk-amid-tongue-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832477\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Housewives of Orange County\u2019s Jeana Keough can\u2019t talk amid tongue cancer battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Real Housewives of Orange County<\/a> star Jeana Keough<\/a>\u2019s tongue cancer has left her unable to speak after \u201crelentless\u201d treatment.<\/p>\n

Kara Keough Bosworth<\/a>, the 70-year-old reality TV alum\u2019s eldest daughter, shared an update on her mother\u2019s condition with fans.<\/p>\n

\"Jeana<\/p>\n

Jeana Keough\u2019s treatment and pain has left her currently unable to talk.\u00a0Instagram\/@karakeoughboz<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, Jeana isn\u2019t talking,\u201d Keough Bosworth said.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThe tongue and throat pain, paired with the mucus from radiation on the area, is just brutal. Poor mama has to spit into tissues all day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keough Bosworth and her brother, Shane Keough, first shared their mother\u2019s cancer diagnosis earlier this month, saying it came after she mentioned a painful sore on her tongue.<\/p>\n

At the time, Keough Bosworth said her mother had undergone two surgeries and started treatment in June.<\/p>\n

\u201cJeana is now in her fifth week of chemotherapy, radiation and immunotherapy. The treatments are relentless,\u201d she wrote on a fundraising page for her mother\u2019s care.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is exhausted, struggling to stay awake and becoming malnourished because the pain in her tongue and throat makes swallowing even the smallest bites or sips incredibly difficult,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day is a battle just to get enough nutrition and hydration to continue treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"RHOC<\/p>\n

Keough Bosworth said her mum \u201cisn\u2019t talking\u201d right now due to pain. \u00a0Instagram\/@karakeoughboz<\/p>\n

Keough had been scheduled to receive a gastrostomy tube\u00a0after not eating for weeks, but her daughter said two medical issues had put a pause to that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe uncovered a DVT (deep vein thrombosis) clot in her leg, and now an infection, too,\u201d Keough Bosworth said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe feeding tube can\u2019t be put directly into her stomach until there\u2019s clarity on the infection.\u201d<\/p>\n

This had also paused the star\u2019s chemotherapy and radiation.<\/p>\n

\"Jeana<\/p>\n

She initially thought it was nothing until doctors discovered she had tongue cancer.\u00a0Instagram\/@karakeoughboz<\/p>\n

\u201cPrayer needs: that this infection clears quickly, that she can get the G-tube surgery imminently so that hangry Jeana doesn\u2019t murder someone, and that we can quickly resume treatment so that this torment can be put in the rear-view mirror,\u201d Keough Bosworth said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Real Housewives of Orange County star Jeana Keough\u2019s tongue cancer has left her unable to speak after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-832477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}