A host on The Project host fought back tears on air while celebrating the bravery of a woman terminally ill with an aggressive cancer.

On Sunday night, the Channel 10 show aired Georgie Tunny’s powerful interview with Emily Lahey, a young Melbourne woman who will share some of her last minutes of life to raise money for cancer research.

Ms Lahey, 31, was diagnosed with stage four NUT carcinoma four years ago after a ‘cricket ball’ sized tumour was found behind her sinuses.

With little known about the disease, she was given between six to nine months left to live but has continued to strive and beat the odds.

However, a recent scan revealed the cancer has spread to her brain and doctors are unable to estimate how long she has left.

Ms Lahey has launched Time to Live – an exhibition in Sydney that allows strangers pay to spend three precious minutes with her.

Ms Lahey said she hoped the segment would help Aussie understand what it’s like to live with a terminal illness in an emotional interview with Tunnny.

Her heartbreaking story left a mark on Tunny who said she ‘has got such a lovely spirit’ while struggling to hold back tears.  

The Project host Georgie Tunny (pictured) has broken town in tears after an interview with a ‘heroic’ Aussie woman using her remaining time alive to fundraise for cancer awareness

During the interview, a visibly upset Tunny wiped back tears while asking Ms Lahey if she ‘ever gets mad at the world’ about the cruel situation she’s been put in.

‘F*** yeah I do … I get so mad,’ the brave woman admitted.

‘I think you just ride that wave being able to see things through a different perspective, not just being caught up on that daily grind.’

Tunny told her that the story would ‘stay with me for the rest of my life’, while clutching at a tissue.

The interview brought back emotional memories for Tunny, who was comforted by fellow host Rachel Corbett as the panel  

The other hosts on Sunday’s panelists also honoured Ms Lahey’s openness with what time she has left.

‘Stories like that just remind you how precious life is,’ Michael Hing said.

‘The fact that she’s committing those precious moments to cancer research and fundraising in, what I can imagine, are really uncomfortable conversations is heroic.’

Corbett said the impact Ms Lahey had on Ms Tunny and those who experienced the exhibition was ‘her legacy’.

‘We take a lot of things for granted … so if you have time and you are lucky enough to have that time you better use it,’ she said.

‘That is an incredible thing to make people think about because we do not think about it enough.’  

The Melbourne woman diagnosed with cancer,  Emily Lahey (pictured), has allowed strangers to spend some of her last precious minutes with her as a living artwork Time to Live

Ms Lahey recounted her life before the diagnosis as a ‘fit’ young woman who would run 5-10km a day and believed that cancer wasn’t an option’. 

Working in the defence force at the time, she said she ‘wanted to start a family (and) there were lots more travel goals’.

Her doctors said she became the ‘popular kid’ as so many people wanted to study the rare type of cancer she and only a handful of people around the world are diagnosed with each year.

The cancer is very resistant to treatment, leading to an aggressive form of chemotherapy to try and ward it off.

The extra time it did give her allowed her to tick off items on her ‘living list’, including swimming with whale sharks and to marry her partner, Jason.

Expressions of interest for Time to Live are available here.