Sally Dynevor couldn’t bear to watch her Coronation Street breast cancer storyline after she was diagnosed with the disease at the same time as her character.
The 55-year-old actress has previously admitted the soap saved her life because she went to the doctor after realising she had the symptoms while researching the plot, and she has now admitted she was booking breast cancer operations as she was shooting similar scenes on the show.
She said: “We couldn’t watch it, it was too close to home.
“When I was filming I was booking in for operations. I said to the Corrie team, ‘I want you to write me to a point where you don’t need me anymore because I don’t want to leave the viewers in limbo,’ so I stayed in the show for a month until taking time off for my treatment.
“There were scenes where I was telling Carla [Alison King] that I had breast cancer and I had breast cancer myself.
“It was hard for the crew and the cast because a few of us felt like we went through it together.
“It was a very strange time in life.
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