Linda Nolan has spoken about her devastating cancer diagnosis on BBC Breakfast.
The 61-year-old The Nolans star revealed how she kept the heartbreaking news quiet initially as her sister Anne had just been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Everyone was so devastated at the news that her sister Anne had cancer, that she felt she couldn’t tell her family she also had the illness.
She explained: “So on the morning I got a phone call from Maureen at 10 o’clock to say Anne’s cancer has been diagnosed, it is breast cancer, it’s stage three and she’ll have to have chemo and everything.
Linda Nolan revealed the heartbreaking reason she kept her cancer diagnosis quiet initially (Image: BBC)
With Covid-19 I couldn’t go round and give her a hug which has been really difficult as well.
Then half an hour later I got a call from my consultant secretary to say that on my last scans they’d seen something on my liver and I had to have an MRI scan.
“Then I didn’t tell anybody for three or four days because they were so devastated about Anne that I thought I can’t now lump this on top of it as well.
She didn’t say anything at first as everyone was so devastated about Anne’s cancer diagnoses (Image: BBC)
“My sister Maureen actually told them eventually and, of course they were devastated.
“But it’s meant that Anne and I can do our treatment together.”
Linda still had a smile on a face as she joked on the BBC programme that she has a new nickname for her and Anne.
She said: “I always say now, you’ve heard of the Chemical Brothers, we’re the chemo sisters now.”
Sisters Linda and Anne were both diagnosed with cancer within days of one another (Image: Sunday Mirror)
During the moving interview, Linda also sung praises to the NHS for working “to continue to deliver the vital care we all need, even as they deal with the ongoing pandemic”.
She added: “It’s so important people get checked out when they need to. Cancer doesn’t wait, and timing is everything. It might be the very thing that makes all the difference.”
BBC Breakfast airs every day at 6am on BBC One.
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