Sally Dynevor admits she is yet to get over having breast cancer.
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The Coronation Street actress – who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009 after going for a check-up because her character, Sally Metcalfe, had been diagnosed on the ITV soap – is set to climb Mount Everest to mark the tenth anniversary of her own diagnosis.
In an interview with OK! magazine, she said:
‘I still haven’t come to terms with having breast cancer. I just can’t believe it happened to me. It’s mainly the fear.
“I’ve locked it away and shoved it to the back of my mind, probably for self-preservation.
‘But I’m going to walk up those mountains getting rid of all those boxed up feelings as I go’.
‘Corrie’ recently aired a storyline where Sinead Tinker (Katie McGlynn) died after battling cervical cancer, and Sally admits that she couldn’t watch the final scenes because it brought back bad memories.
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When asked if she feared cancer returning, she responded:
‘You don’t ever stop thinking about it. That’s why I couldn’t watch Sinead Tinker’s final scenes on ‘Corrie’.
‘It brought back all those emotions. I could feel what she was feeling’.
Sally also revealed that she still struggles to talk about her cancer battle.
She added:
‘Yes, ten years on I still find it hard to talk about it. I try to forget I had breast cancer.
‘After I’d initially spoken about it I began pushing it away. You want to live as you and not be labelled as a cancer patient.
‘But more recently I’ve realised I do need to talk about my experience because it helps raise awareness and lets others know they’re not alone’.
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