Adrian Szymaniak z Married at First Sight died at 39 after a battle with an aggressive brain tumor. His death was announced by Anita Szydłowska, who asked for silence, privacy and a strictly private farewell for the family.
She wrote: “Z ogromnym bólem informujemy, że Adrian odszedł. W tych niezwykle trudnych chwilach najważniejsze są dla nas cisza, bliskość i możliwość pożegnania Go w gronie najbliższych”. That request now defines the only public boundary around his farewell.
Anita Szydłowska’s private farewell
“Nie chcemy, aby ktokolwiek budował przekaz, zainteresowanie czy rozgłos na naszym cierpieniu. Potrzebujemy teraz przede wszystkim spokoju i przestrzeni, aby pożegnać Adriana z miłością, godnością i w ciszy. (...) W tym niezwykle trudnym dla nas czasie prosimy również o powstrzymanie się od osobistego składania kondolencji, telefonów oraz wiadomości” — Anita Szydłowska said in her social media statement. For readers following the story, the practical point is simple: the family has asked for no direct contact and no public turning of grief into content.
Szymaniak was one of the best-known and most liked participants in Ślub od pierwszego wejrzenia. The show made him familiar to a broad TV audience, but the news now centers on the private reality of a family dealing with a death at 39, not on the public profile that first introduced him.
What the illness showed
He first described symptoms that he thought were side effects of medicines. Looking at his phone, he noticed the screen seemed to move outside the phone; later, while standing first at a red light, he saw cartoon characters that Blanka watches, then came severe migraine headaches, hallucinations, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, until an ambulance was called at night.
A CT scan at the hospital showed a change in the brain, and surgery followed. Neurosurgeons removed almost all of the detected lesion, but histopathological tests then showed glejak IV stopnia. After that, intensive oncological treatment with radiotherapy and chemotherapy began, and he regularly stayed at Centrum Onkologii w Bydgoszczy for maintenance chemotherapy cycles.
Between 2010 and 2024, only 28,2 proc. of glioma patients in Polska survived five years after diagnosis, while about 2,375 brain cancers are diagnosed each year and gliomas make up 75 proc. of those cases. In plain terms, the diagnosis carries a poor prognosis because the disease is both common within brain cancer and difficult to control once it reaches that grade.
Glejak IV stopnia in Polska
The case also puts a hard number on the scale of the disease in Polska: nearly 1,8 tys. new glioma patients a year, according to The National Cancer Registry. That is why his story moved beyond a celebrity death notice and into a broader health reality — one that is still measured in surgery, repeated treatment cycles and survival rates that remain low.
The family’s private funeral ceremony is the next public step, but only on their terms. For now, the clearest reading of the situation is that Anita Szydłowska has drawn a firm line around mourning, and anyone covering the story should keep to it.
