Jade Goody faces further surgery

Goody was diagnosed with cervical cancer in August last year

Terminally-ill reality TV star Jade Goody is facing the prospect of more surgery to relieve her "awful pain", her publicist Max Clifford has said.

The 27-year-old Big Brother star is set to be admitted to the Royal Marsden Hospital, in London.

Goody spent the weekend in a hospice following problems with her medication.

The mother-of two has weeks to live after her cervical cancer, which was diagnosed last year, spread to her liver, groin and bowel.

Mr Clifford said he had just had a "very emotional" phone call with Goody.

"She has a great deal of pain from her tummy and they don't seem to be able to get it under control," he said.

"She is going back to the Marsden. There's likely to be further surgery tonight or tomorrow."

She wants to go home. She doesn't want to be in hospital. Max Clifford

Goody had been expected to return home from St Clare Hospice, in Hastingwood, Essex, on Monday

But Mr Clifford said doctors had explained that surgery was likely to be the best option.

"I think it's just to get her out of this awful pain that she is in," said Mr Clifford.

He added: "It's a continuing process but we hope they will be able to get things under control.

"She wants to go home. She doesn't want to be in hospital."

"She's very frightened. She was sobbing on the phone to me. She said: 'Why can't they get me out of all this pain?'.

"Hopefully that's what they're going to do."

Goody is due to be christened next Saturday at a church close to her home with her sons, Bobby, five, and Freddie, four.

She also plans to record a television interview with Piers Morgan for ITV early next week, Mr Clifford said.