New York - While fighting a second bout with stage four
mantle cell lymphoma, Andrew Madoff says he is still not ready to forgive his
father for the damage he caused.
The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS reports that Madoff, the sole
surviving son of Ponzi scheme-king Bernie Madoff, said that the stress and
shame he has had to endure in the fallout of his jailed father’s criminal
behavior is responsible for the re-emergence of the cancer he thought he had
beaten a decade ago.
The 47 year-old Madoff said a stem cell transplant he
received in May seemed to be doing well, but faltered recently, causing him to
undergo a donor infusion on Tuesday, a procedure doctors say has a 50/50 chance
of helping.
“Things were humming along nicely,” Madoff said. “But then
one of the components of the transplant started failing.”
Madoff said the unwavering support from his fiancée,
children, and friends has been comforting, and that, despite the fact that he
and his late brother, Mark, initially severed relations with mother Ruth due to
her continued defense of Bernie, he has mended that relationship.
But forgiving Bernie is another story completely, and not
one Andrew is interested in revisiting.
“Even on my deathbed I will never forgive him for what he
did,” said Madoff.
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