EastEnders actress Cheryl Fergison reveals womb cancer battle and shares why she kept her terrifying diagnosis secret for nine years: ‘I thought I’d die’

EastEnders actress Cheryl Fergison has uncovered her secret womb cancer struggle in a candid new job interview.

The actress, 58, who performed Heather Trott in the BBC cleaning soap from 2007 until eventually 2012, has stored her well being issues personal soon after obtaining the terrifying diagnosis nine many years in the past.

She has now shared that she believed she was going to die immediately after being diagnosed with phase two womb most cancers in 2015 – contacting it ‘a horrendous time’. 

She advised Okay! Magazine: ‘There were some dim moments, specially at night, when I believed, ‘Am I likely to die? Am I heading to depart my spouse with out a spouse, my son devoid of a mum?’

‘But the time is right to communicate about it all now. I’m hoping my story may possibly empower other women of all ages.

‘I’ve been via a great deal but I am nevertheless right here. What doesn’t kill you helps make you stronger.’ 

She received her diagnosis just after attending a standard smear take a look at, which came back apparent.

But after she started off dealing with again suffering and spotting blood which she understood wasn’t ordinary.

She then went to see her GP and she was referred for assessments and a biopsy at a regional clinic in Kent.

4 months right after that she acquired the news she experienced stage two womb cancer.

Cheryl has now informed how hearing the doctor’s analysis was like an ‘out of entire body experience’. 

She said: ‘I was in absolute shock shocked to the main. I could not think the physician was conversing about me.’

Pursuing X-rays, Cheryl was also advisable for a entire hysterectomy just months later. 

She informed how this strike her tricky in case she had desired to have one more baby – following her prospects of accomplishing so have been presently reduced due to an early menopause.

Cheryl now lives with her spouse of 12 years Yassine. She has a son Alex, 24, from her initial marriage to Jamshed Saddiqi. 

She had only just married Yassine when the prognosis arrived and felt unhappiness that ‘any considered of having a boy or girl with each other had been taken away’.

The star shared the devastating information with a number of pals in the marketplace at the time, which include Dame Barbara Windsor, June Brown, and Steve McFadden.

She also confided in leisure icons Paul O’Grady and Julian Clary.

Only final year, Cheryl was specified the all clear.

Her sharing the prognosis arrives after before this thirty day period Cheryl discovered she was rushed to healthcare facility, soon after getting remaining ‘in comprehensive agony’. 

She launched a lengthy statement sharing that she was handled for an an infection that remaining her in substantial ache, but just after 6 antibiotic drips, she was quickly ‘home and on the street to restoration.’

In her assertion, published by The Mirror, Cheryl shared that her 24-hour stint in A&E was an ‘eye-opening working experience,’ incorporating that she has been ‘in and out of hospital’ for the past 9 decades thanks to some ‘serious health disorders.’

Thanking the staff at Blackpool & Victoria Instructing Healthcare facility, Cheryl claimed: ‘I was treated for an infection with six hourly antibiotics IV drips and at situations was in comprehensive agony. 

‘I’m happy to say the an infection is subsiding and I am now I am household and on the road to restoration. My family members have been by my aspect in the course of this complete ordeal.

‘Spending 24 hrs in A&E was much more than an eye opening experience. The pure abuse and overrun ailments that our wellness staff have to endure was unpleasant to look at. 

‘The lack of appreciation that was showed by some folks inside my time there was very difficult to view.’

Cheryl continued that her earlier overall health battles had been ‘very scary’ and ‘unsettling,’ and explained the NHS as ‘horribly broken’ and ‘neglected.’

She ended her statement by stating that she seemed forward to ‘getting again on her ft again’, and returning to do the job with her son at Whispers Cafe in Lytham.

Just prior to she had claimed in a clip: ‘Hi all people, I’ve just spent the past 24 several hours in A&E at Blackpool Victoria clinic. I have viewed items in the previous 24 several hours I can’t unsee. I have been in full agony. 

‘I’ve been made a million times far better by the angels that are all of the NHS personnel which I wanna thank, like, massive time. When persons say they do not get compensated more than enough – they really don’t get paid out plenty of.

‘We’ve received a damaged technique. It is long gone to pot. It really is shot. But it really is continue to amazing and we even now have it – just, by a thread.’

She additional: ‘I wanna to begin with say a large thank you. I’m a lot improved and when you sit for 24 hrs in a chair in an A&E section currently being transported off every single 6 hours to go and get an IV, antibiotic drips, and occur back again once more…’

Cheryl’s followers flooded the feedback portion with properly needs and supportive messages for the cleaning soap star.

They shared: ‘Oh Cheryl, bless you. Hope you happen to be emotion far better and completely get better speedily. God bless ❤️ Omg hope you ok now. Sending hugs. ❤️’

‘So sorry x hope you happen to be emotion far better x glance following by yourself x relaxation !!!! And hope you will not have to go via that yet again ❤ Do hope you’re ok? Sending therapeutic ❤️‍’

‘Get perfectly quite soon, just take it effortless ❤️ Get very well before long and thank goodness that the NHS is even now battling on inspite of all that it truly is likely by means of.’

Cheryl came to fame playing loveable Heather Trott on EastEnders for five many years, ahead of getting viciously killed by Ben Mitchell in 2012. 

Her character’s dying came at the final decision of the cleaning soap bosses, not Cheryl herself, who preceding admitted she burst into tears just after becoming told.

She explained to Very best journal: ‘It was a bittersweet day. What you get with a person hand, you get taken away with one more!

‘When they instructed me Heather was for the chop, (the manager) had to get me a tissue. Sometimes a character is sacrificed to make other stories get the job done. I get it. I realized it was likely to occur but it was nevertheless a shock.’

A resource told The Sun at the time about her exit: ‘Heather’s character has been vastly well-known more than the many years, but the conclusion has been taken to slice her out of the exhibit ahead of viewers tire of her.’