A woman who left her husband to sleep with 200 men after she was diagnosed with cancer revealed why she did it.
Former LA resident Molly Kochan passed away from metastasised breast cancer in March 2019, at the age of 45.
10 years after noticing a lump on her breast, Molly was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in 2015, and the terminally ill patient decided to leave her unsatisfying marriage.
As Molly underwent treatment, she expressed her desire to sleep with as many men as possible in the time she had left.
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Her life and podcast have been made into FX series of the same name Dying For Sex, as Michelle Williams plays Molly and Jenny Slate stars as her friend and co-host Nikki Boyer.
In real life, six podcast episodes detailed Molly's sexual adventures and they were released posthumously in 2020.
On the decision to leave her husband, Molly explained on one of the episodes: "For a long time with sex - and this is why I had a problem in my marriage - I was really, really, really good at figuring out what other people liked and then I could simulate that like an actor for them.
"But I never really knew what I liked."
She said her hormone medication boosted her sex drive to the point that she 'wanted to hump everything and everyone'.
As a result, Molly entered the world of kinky fetishes, casual sex and naughty sexting.
“Whenever my health scares escalated, so did my sexual adventures. It was a way to trump the distraction,” she wrote in her 2020 memoir Screw Cancer: Becoming Whole.
Molly noted that her husband wished her well and his initial reaction was 'good for you'.
Above all, she said that regular sex was 'a great distraction from being sick'.
Her best friend Nikki, who recorded the podcast with her, said 'she was healing wounds on her death bed'.
"Her lifelong dream was to write a book and be a published author. She waited until the last few months of her life to do it. She was thinking the clearest she ever had in her life," she told the New York Post in 2020.
Although Molly never fell in love with another person, she eventually managed to fall in love with herself.
"I wish I could cap off the whirlwind hospital story with an amazing tale about a guy who swept me off my feet and made me blush, but my visitor never showed up," she wrote.
"I realise I did get to fall in love. I am in love. With me."
If you’ve been affected by any of these issues and want to speak to someone in confidence, contact Macmillan’s Cancer Support Line on 0808 808 00 00, 8am–8pm seven days a week.
Anish Vij