The soap favourite opens up to OK! about what sparked her years of self harm, how she finally overcame it and why she now wants to use her story to empower other women
But for former EastEnders favourite Cheryl Fergison it signalled only the start of a second nightmare involving years of self harm.
“In my head, I thought I still had cancer cells in me. Doctors had talked about having done a ‘washing’ procedure as part of the surgery so I thought right, I’ll wash myself, I’ll wash these cells away,” recalled Cheryl, 58, who played Heather Trott for half a decade on the soap. Burned and sore, smear tests became too painful to bear. Sex with her husband Yass was difficult and the tender skin would sometimes bleed. She now has a partial bladder prolapse, she believes as a result of her actions.
“They looked into it. They had trouble getting hold of my notes but, when they did and they looked at them, it turned out the initial treatment had got all the cancer.
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