Anne Diamond reveals heartbreaking way she found out breast cancer diagnosis | The Sun

BROADCASTER Anne Diamond has spoken of the moment she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

The former Loose Women star, 68, has been battling the illness for nearly six months and has had a double mastectomy.

Speaking about her diagnosis for the first time on last night's GB News, Anne told how she was diagnosed on the day she found out she was going to be made an OBE.

She explained: “I haven't been on a world cruise.

"It's been a fight against breast cancer. That's what it's been. It's been a long journey.

"And five months later, I'm still not at the end of the journey, but I'm through it enough to come back to work."

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Recalling the day she learned she had cancer, she continued: "It was a wonderful moment and that was like 9.30 in the morning. But I knew then, because I'd already seen my GP, that I had to go to a breast cancer screening thing later in the morning. I thought I would just go for a mammogram, and a couple of tests and I'd be free in an hour.

"I spent the entire morning at my local hospital where they did everything, biopsies, X-rays, CT scans, a couple of mammograms, everything, and by lunchtime I was still there. And a lovely lady came with a lanyard around her neck that said MacMillan Cancer Care and I knew then it was serious."

"I don't have any advice for people because I'm still going through it. But I'm well enough to return to work. I had the full works, the full mastectomy. God, this is the first time I've talked about it, so it's quite difficult but I've had the full works."

The major surgery to remove her breasts took nine hours and Anne has no recollection of it.

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"I don't remember it," she continued. "I was in and out like that, but nine hours of removal and rebuild, that took a lot of getting over and then I had an operation later where they took out lymph nodes as well, just to make sure they can trace the travel, if the cancer has travelled at all to the rest of the body. Luckily I don't think it did.

"I've had a load of radiotherapy, which I found very hard too. So it's been a journey, but I'm not pretending for a minute that I am extraordinary, because I am fully aware that a quarter of women in this country are going through what I've just gone through and I don't have any advice to give. I only have empathy."

After flitting between the BBC and ITN early in her career,Anne shot to fame on breakfast TV in the 80s alongside Nick Owen on TV-am.

They then continued their partnership on the BBC in the early nineties with Good Morning with Anne and Nick.

Anne ventured into reality TV in 2002, taking part in the second series of Celebrity Big Brother. However, her time in the house was short-lived when she became the second person to be evicted.

From 2003, Anne was a panellist and stand in presenter on The Wright Stuff and, from 2018, its successor Jeremy Vine.

The former Loose Women panellist will return to work this weekend when she will host Breakfast with Stephen Dixon.

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