Frankie Bridge admitted she was worried she might die after doctors discovered a rare tumour in her neck.
On Tuesday (February 6), The Saturdays star appeared on Loose Women to share her latest health scare. Following the news that King Charles has been diagnosed with an unspecified form of cancer, the panellists on the show discussed their own experiences with cancer.
The doting mum, who shares two children with her husband Wayne, revealed that she discovered the tumour by chance. The 35-year-old singer explained that doctors found the lump on her neck when she attended a routine MRI scan after suffering from a recent bout of headaches.
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She reassured fans of the beloved ITV daytime show that the tumour was “benign” and would not need treatment as she shared her terrifying ordeal on the show. The hitmaker told viewers: “Because I suffer with headaches, I’ve recently had an MRI and just by chance they found something on my neck.
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“So, I had to have another MRI and it turned out to be a tumour – which is benign, it doesn’t need treating, it’s absolutely fine. But for that first week where the doctor had rang me to tell me the results of the MRI, I was on my own.
“Wayne was away, I was in the middle of cooking the boys’ dinner and he [the doctor] was like, ‘Oh, we’ve found a tumour. I don’t want to say what it is yet because I don’t know, I’m gonna have to present it to a board of other specialists’.
“And I instantly thought, ‘That’s it. This is my time. I’m gonna be sick’, or, I did go straight away to, ‘God, I’m gonna die’.” The blonde bombshell explained that the type of tumour she has is “really rare” and will need to be “monitored”.
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She went on: “And I had to kind of hold it together for the boys. And luckily for me, the outcome was it’s just really rare. It’s really unfortunate.
“They’ve only come across it because they were scanning me for my headaches. And it will be something that we have to monitor, but that week of not telling the kids, not really telling friends or anything like that, I think I just kind of breezed through the week.
“I didn’t really take anything in so I imagine when it is a horrible outcome – I can’t even imagine what that feels like.” During the emotional interview, the star opened up about what it was like when her mother was treated for cancer.
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Her mum Viv Sandford was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer at the start of 2023 and has now overcome the disease after several successful rounds of chemotherapy. Frankie shared how her mum has overcome the illness which took “a toll on her body”.
She went on: “It has taken a toll on her body. She is well now, and she is cancer-free, but obviously it comes with a price, and it affects your body afterwards. So I think that’s been a big thing and horrible to see her go through.”
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