ROGER DALTREY COMFORTS CANCER PARENTS

Veteran rocker Roger Daltrey provided a shoulder to cry on when he met an American couple whose son had been diagnosed with cancer.
The co-founder of The Who spent an hour talking to Joe and Joan Vrola, from New Jersey, about their 22-year-old son, Joey.
They had no idea that Daltrey, 65, who was taking a break at the Ritz Carlton in Palm Beach, Florida, founded the Teenage Cancer Trust and were amazed at how caring he was, with Joan weeping in his arms as they spoke.
“This was probably the most therapeutic conversation we had with anyone since our son was diagnosed three years ago,” Joe Vrola told columnist Jose Lambiet.
“Our son is doing much better physically, but he's not the same kid. There's an anguish associated with the disease that teens, especially, need to deal with.
“Bad things happen to them when it comes to drinking and drugs and isolation.
“The hospital may be good at curing, but the provide no psychological counselling. No one in this country seems to understand that, but Roger Daltrey does.
“Besides close family, there aren't too many people who actually care. But here you have this total stranger who does.”
Hours later Daltrey called Joey in person.
Joe Vrola asked him what made him so interested in teen cancer, asking if any of his children had had it.
“He said no,” went on Vrola. “But his answer had the hair on the back of my neck stand straight.
“He said teens made him what he is. They were his biggest fans. He said he just wants to give back to those who supported him all these years.”