Home and Away’s Johnny Ruffo shares heartbreaking post as he continues his battle terminal cancer

Johnny Ruffo recently enjoyed a romantic getaway in New Zealand with longtime girlfriend Tahnee Sims amid his ongoing treatment for terminal brain cancer.

And on Wednesday, the former Home and Away star, 35, returned to Australia to resume treatment.

The Perth resident shared a photo on Instagram capturing him gesturing a thumbs up from a lounger in a hospital, ahead of a chemotherapy session.

Johnny seems to remain in good spirits when he is seen smiling in the chair next to an IV tube.

“Back to reality,” he wrote alongside the photo, alongside three boxing glove emojis.

Many of Johnny’s celebrity friends quickly sent him their best wishes.

“You’re amazing,” PR queen Roxy Jacenko gushed as actress Bonnie Sveen wrote, “You’ve got this.”

Johnny regularly posts updates about his cancer treatment to his 261,000 Instagram followers.

Earlier this year, he started another round of chemotherapy and posted a photo of himself undergoing treatment at the hospital with his girlfriend Tahnee by his side.

The actor put on a brave face, smiled and gave thumbs up while sitting in a chair.

“Back in my favorite chair,” he wrote sarcastically alongside the hashtags #ihatethischair and #f**kcancer.

Johnny was first diagnosed with brain cancer in 2017 after going to the hospital with painful migraines.

In August of that year, he had emergency surgery and a 7cm brain tumor was surgically removed from his frontal lobe before undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

The former X Factor star went on to praise his partner Tahnee, calling her his ‘guardian angel’ and saying he doesn’t know what he would do without her.

Johnny went into remission months after his initial diagnosis in 2017, but revealed in November 2021 that the disease had returned.