Linda Nolan, a singer and actress battling incurable cancer, opened up about a difficult Christmas period spent battling a mystery illness that left her unable to eat for 11 days. The 65-year-old revealed she experienced weakness and struggled to catch her breath, fearing for the worst and remembering her late sister Bernie's final days.
Linda Nolan revealed she struggled during the Christmas period with a 'mystery' illness that left her unable to eat for 11 days. The singer and actress is living with an incurable cancer, first diagnosed in 2005. She went into remission with breast cancer the following year, but in 2027, the 65-year-old revealed she had been diagnosed with secondary cancer in her hip, which then spread to her liver in 2020 and in 2023, to her brain.
After revealing that treatments had stopped working, Linda has kept fans updated with her health and personal life through a column in The Mirror. Linda, the sister of Blackpool-born Coleen Nolan, opened up about her difficult Christmas and says she didn't eat for 11 days, the Express reports. Dishing on her first meal of the new year, Linda wrote: 'Chicken curry with pineapple, no mushrooms. I’d never have imagined that would be my first bite of 2025 – but there it is. 'Denise and Tom were ordering a Chinese on Sunday and suddenly that’s what I fancied. Pineapple in a curry. That was the foil container to finally tempt me out of my fast. My very own Chinese New Year.' She revealed: 'I hadn’t eaten for 11 days – what a Christmas! A complete wipe out. Everyone’s been so worried. The girls have been bringing me energy drinks and that’s all I’ve been able to get down.' As for the illness, Linda shared: 'The doctors say it’s been a bad case of flu. I became so weak I’d walk a few steps and struggle to catch my breath. 'My legs were even more wobbly than usual and of course although I try not to, I immediately thought of how Bernie was at the end. You think, Oh my God, is this it?' Speaking on her older sister, she recalled: 'On New Year’s Eve Denise was so worried she got me checked out at the hospital and they gave me steroids on top of antibiotics. 'They sent me back home to rest and she was then reassured enough to go to Coleen’s New Year’s party as my friend Sue and her husband Graham came round to stay. I was asleep by 10.10pm – but that was pretty good going!
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