Linda Nolan shares one thing she doesn't want to know after devastating cancer diagnosis
The 64-year-old has opened up on her brain cancer battle
Linda Nolan has revealed the one thing she doesn't want to know as she opened up on her cancer battle.
The 64-year-old confirmed on Good Morning Britain last month that the cancer had spread to her brain. The singer was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in 2005 but got the all-clear in 2006.
In 2017, cancer returned in her hip and spread to her liver in 2020. Linda's brain cancer diagnosis came after three falls prompted a scan. and found the tumour on the left side of her brain is impacting her right side, causing balance loss.
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Linda branded the diagnosis as frightening on the ITV news programme as she added: "There isn't much help for brain cancer at the moment." The singer has made a devastating admission as she is concerned the cancer could be terminal.
She told Mirror Online: "I think it’s a one-way trip now.” However, Linda said she doesn't want to know how long she has left as she confronted death for the first time.
She said: "I am positive, but I have my moments when I slide down the wall in a heap. What happens? Is it dark, are you on your own? I’m frightened of the unknown and being on my own, I have always been with people.”
She added: “I’m frightened to cry in case I don’t stop sometimes.” However, Linda has vowed to battle the illness as she has just finished 11 radiotherapy sessions, and is on steroids awaiting the results of a second MRI scan to see if the brain tumours have shrunk.
Linda will then start taking new chemotherapy drug Tucatinib, which she hopes will give her "more time”. Linda lost her husband Brian and younger sister Bernie to cancer, and watched eldest sister Anne successfully fight it.
She explained how she has been told to not compare her cancer battle to others because "everyone is different." She added: "I remember with Bernie, she phoned me and said ‘It’s gone to my brain, ‘I’m f***ed’. At the time there was only radiotherapy, and then it didn’t work. But for me there is a new drug, and hope.”
Linda's illness has affected her mobility and she has moved in with sister Denise close by in Blackpool, and her other sister Maureen visits daily. She said: "My right foot is practically paralysed, I have to lift it up."
Linda is grateful for the support of her sisters as she said they have agreed to become her carers if they need to. However, Linda would prefer them not to as she said: "I’d rather they just brought chocolate and gin. I was very loath to get in the wheelchair.
She added: “I don’t want to be pressure for other people. And you appreciate what being disabled is - it’s hard to get your chair into the table, people talk across your head without even realising, the girls did it.”
Linda explained she is now focused on creating special memories with her loved ones. She said: "I’m looking to book a big house for us in the Lake District so we can just make memories, it’s all about using precious time."
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