1 week Ago By Jon Rogers
HOLLYOAKS star Ali Bastian has been diagnosed with stage two breast cancer, leaving her in “total shock”. The actress, who has also appeared on the BBC One series Doctors and took part in the seventh series of Strictly Come Dancing, found a lump when she was breast feeding her daughter Isabella. The 42-year-old star is undergoing weekly chemotherapy sessions and is set to undergo a mastectomy and radiotherapy treatment early next year.
She told OK! magazine: “It was a total shock. I have mornings when I wake up and I’ve forgotten..
. and then suddenly I remember. I’m still trying to process it.
” Initially, doctors believed it could be a blocked duct but after antibiotics failed to stop the soreness she had tests done at a specialist clinic that revealed she had cancer. Her husband David O’Mahony said: “I was with the kids and Ali stuck her head round the door and said that cancerous cells had turned up in the biopsy. "She said it in the most subtle way so the girls didn’t twig.
I could see how scared and in shock she was. "It’s so tempting to try and ‘positive’ your way through news like this but it just hit us like a sledgehammer. "I just had a feeling of it being so unfair that Ali had been dealt this hand.
” Ali played the character of Becca Dean on the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks from 2001 to 2007. Most read in News TV She moved from London to rural Ireland with her husband and two daughters, Isla and Isabella earlier this year. Ali revealed in an Instagram post she suffered “major burn out” due to her life in London and challenges following her second pregnancy being some of the reasons the family left the capital.
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