Linda Nolan and sister Anne are both battling cancer at the same time.
Linda’s incurable cancer is in her liver and is her third recurrence following breast cancer in 2006. Meanwhile Anne suffering from stage three breast cancer.
The siblings, who are part of the singing group The Nolans, alongside Loose Women star sister Coleen Nolan endured a gruelling round of chemotherapy together at Blackpool’s Victoria Hospital last month.
The pair got their heartbreaking diagnosis after returning home from filming their hit TV series The Nolans Go Cruising, with their bandmate sisters Coleen and Maureen in March.
Anne and Linda both received the devastating diagnoses within days of each other.
Linda’s incurable cancer is in her liver and is her third recurrence following breast cancer in 2006 (Image: CHANNEL 5)
Linda said: “We laughed and we cried really. It’s hysterical.
“Forget the Chemical Brothers, we’ve become the Chemo Sisters.”
Both sisters have currently lost their hair as they go through treatment.
They are staying positive though and have vowed to beat their cancer, a disease which tragically killed their sister Bernie in 2013.
Anne, who is the eldest Nolan sister at 69, is mum to Amy, 39, and Alex, 32, and grandma to Amy’s son Ryder, eight, and Alex’s children Vinny, ten, and five-year-old Nevaeh.
In a tearful interview with The Sun, she said: “I don’t want to die. I love my life so much.
“I love my daughters, my grandchildren, my friends, all my family.
Anne has been diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer
“I want to live for as long as I possibly can. I am scared of dying as well.
“Even though I believe in God, I’m still scared.”
An equally emotional Linda, 61, who has never had children, also sobbed as she said” “It’s just really hard and I’m scared of dying. I don’t want to die.
“I want to be around and see my great nieces and nephews grow up, and that’s why I’m putting everything I’ve got into trying to get well.”
Linda’s incurable cancer is her third recurrence following breast cancer in 2006, cellulitis and lymphoedema in her arm in 2007 and secondary cancer on her pelvis in 2017.
Both ladies are part of the band The Nolans alongside their siblings (Image: ITV)
Talking of their diagnoses, she said: “I thought my scans would just be fine as they normally are.
“On May 7 our sister Maureen called me at 10am to say that Anne’s breast cancer had been confirmed.
“Then half an hour later my oncologist’s secretary phoned me to say, ‘We need you to have an MRI scan because we’ve seen something on your liver’.
“I couldn’t tell anyone then because they were so obviously devastated about Anne.
“I thought, ‘I can’t turn around now and say, ‘Actually I’ve got it back as well’.”
Anne is suffering from stage three breast cancer – the most serious being stage four.
It is the second time she has had to fight the disease.
Both sisters are seeing a psychologist to help them cope with the news, which has come amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Anne says she’s had anxiety attacks, saying things have been harder as she hasn’t seen her family.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
