Nigel Latta has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has less than a year to live.

Psychologist and media personality Nigel Latta has revealed that he has cancer and has less than a year to live.

Latta shared the news in a video posted to Facebook on Thursday.

He added that he was diagnosed a month ago after going to his GP complaining of a “really unpleasant feeling of fullness in his throat”.

He was then referred to a gastroenterologist, who discovered a tumor at the base of his stomach.

“She said it was probably cancer. It wasn’t a good time.”

Latta said the specialist gave him six to 12 months to live. The cancer was inoperable and incurable, he said.

“It was probably the most traumatic experience I’ve ever had.

“I remember standing outside when he told me that, and I didn’t know what to do or where to go. I remember standing there and being completely paralyzed.”

That evening he went to his hotel, ate “a lot of ice cream” and cried, he said.

Latta is known for presenting true crime series Beyond the Dark Lands and Politically incorrect programs about parenting, as well as his books on the same subject. He recently hosted a program on TVNZ You have been deceived.

Since his diagnosis, he has been undergoing chemotherapy, which he says left him feeling tired and sick – “as if I was grating all the active cells in my body with a cheese grater.”

He added that the treatment caused the tumor to shrink by about 60 percent.

He will begin a new three-month round of chemotherapy on Friday, and “then we’ll see what happens,” he said.

In the video, Latta also paid tribute to his wife, Natalie Flynn, who supported him throughout his diagnosis and treatment.

He said she was “the center of my world” and admitted that it was hard for him to imagine leaving her alone.