Marisa Abela gives key health update as she reveals after cancer treatment

Marisa Abela has shared a major update on her cancer treatment.

The Industry actress was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at age 23 and went through treatement.

“I’m all in the clear now, thank God,” the British actress, now 29, told The Sunday Times. "I don’t have a working thyroid so these pills sort of create one. I’m never going to miss those appointments. The thyroid is all to do with your hormones, and staying on top of your hormones, as a woman, to make sure things are running as they should, is important."

The actress received surgery to remove the cancer and radioactive iodine treatment.

She detailed the treatment in a 2024 interview with The Times.

"It’s mental. A sort of nuclear physicist in an astronaut suit gives you this box and you unscrew the box and tip it up and this pulsating neon tablet goes into you — like something from the opening of The Simpsons," she said.

"And then this man, standing on the other side of the room, points a sort of gun thing at you to see how nuclear you are and it goes like, ‘Bbbbrrrrrrr’ and he’s like, ‘Yup, good to go,’ and he runs out of the room. And you’re just left there thinking, ‘This is in my body. How has someone just given this to me?’”

Abela thought her acting career would be over after the surgery, which left a big scar on her neck.

"When I first went to the bathroom after surgery and I saw myself in the mirror, I thought, ‘That’s it, my career is over,’ because [my neck] was stapled, bloody," Abela said. 

Marisa married her longtime partner, actor Jamie Bogyo, in September 2025.