Molly left her husband to reignite her sex life after she learned she had Stage IV terminal breast cancer. (Picture: Instagram)

A woman diagnosed with terminal breast cancer left her husband so she could have better sex before she died.

Molly, whose last name was withheld for privacy, reentered the dating scene at the age of 41 in search of satisfying sex and opened up about the wild escapades she had in the final years of her life in the six-part Wondery podcast ‘Dying for Sex,’ hosted by her best friend, Nikki Boyer.

Her journey began after she learned she had stage four terminal breast cancer and decided to leave her unsatisfying marriage to explore her own sexuality. She battled cancer before in 2011, but her later diagnosis was a death sentence.



‘Sexually, we had difficulties before cancer came along (the first time). Right before I got diagnosed, I was kind of looking to recharge our sex life…and then cancer showed up,’ Molly, who died last March at age 45, said of her marriage.


She stayed with her husband through her first round of treatments, which included a double mastectomy, radiation, chemotherapy and reconstructive surgery, but once she received her second diagnosis she decided to take her life into her own hands.

Molly and her bestfriend, Nikki Boyer, produced the six-part podcast ‘Dying for Sex’ in which she details her sex life and the end of her life. (Picture: Dying for Sex podcast)

‘Sex makes me feel alive, and it’s a great distraction from being sick,’ Molly said in one episode of the podcast, revealing that she had over 185 suitors in her phone at one point.

After her first diagnosis, Molly admitted that she did not even feel ‘relevant as a sexual female’ after she lost her breasts and learned she could no longer have children.

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‘Cancer is not really the best place to start exploring sexuality. We were just trying to stay alive,’ she said.

Molly began taking a hormone therapy drug that was supposed to ‘squash’ her libido, but it seemed to have the reverse effect on her, she said.

‘I literally wanted to hump everyone and everything that I saw. I was horny all the time. I felt like a teenager.’

Molly said she began taking a hormone therapy drug that was supposed to ‘squash’ her libido, but it ended up having the opposite effect. (Picture: Instagram)

She first began by sending sexy pictures on a dating app with her husband’s approval, which led to some virtual affairs, but then she got a call from her doctor and was told her cancer spread to her bone. It was terminal.

The diagnosis made her reconsider her unsatisfying 15-year marriage and she decided to leave her husband so she could enjoy the rest of her life as a single woman.

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Boyer told The New York Post that she got the idea for the podcast in 2018 after she picked Molly up for lunch.

‘I said, “Why do you look really cute?” She said she had already been on two dates,’ Boyer said.

‘One guy had gotten in from the night before and they met for coffee at 6 am. And she had breakfast with the next guy. I said, “There’s a story in here”…Sex and illness are rarely discussed together.’

Boyer said she hopes Molly’s story inspires others to seek the experiences they really want before it’s too late and nurture their relationships while they can. (Picture: Instagram)

The pair spoke about Molly’s sex life through the lens of her terminal cancer treatment, handling her dire issues with humor at times.



In one episode, Molly explains why she let some men she met online come to her house, saying, ‘What are you going to do to me? I’m dying.’

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‘Telling her story was important because she didn’t want her identity to be cancer and walk into a room to have people say, “How are you?” She kept it a secret,’ Boyer said.

‘It’s not just about the sex. It’s about healing old wounds and coming to terms with what is happing to her. Sex, for her, was not the endgame.’

Boyer said she hopes Molly’s courageous, free-spirited journey inspires others.

Molly passed away last March at the age of 45. The podcast concludes its final episode on March 11 (Picture: Instagram)

‘People can think all day about what they would do, but you never know what life will throw at you and how you will react…What’s on your bucket list? What do you want to live for?’ she told the Post.

‘My hope is that people nurture their relationships. Don’t wait for someone to tell you they’re dying.’