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Frankie Bridge has revealed that she thought her life was over when doctors discovered a benign tumour on her neck after an MRI scan.
The Loose Women star, 35, told her fellow panellists that she was 'terrified' after doctors told her of the mass in her neck - but thankfully - it wasn't cancerous. Frankie, who is a proud mum to sons Parker, 9, and Carter, 7, went in for the MRI after suffering debilitating headaches.
The former Saturday's singer was hyper-concerned about her health given her beloved mum's cancer battle and felt it only right that she attend an MRI 'just to be safe'. In a turn of unexpected events, Frankie went into the scan not fearing the worst, and left feeling terrified after being told of her diagnosis.
"I suffer really bad with headaches, so I recently had an MRI," Frankie explained. "And just by chance, they found something on my neck so I had to have another MRI and it turned out to be a tumour, which is benign and it doesn't need treatment. It's absolutely fine but for that first week where the doctor had rang me to tell me the results of the MRI - I was on my own and Wayne was away - instantly I just thought, 'that's it'.
"I thought it was my time, I thought I was going to be sick for a long time, or you know, that it would be the end for me. I did think straight away that I was going to die. I had to hold it together for the boys but luckily for the me, the outcome was good. It's really rare, they only came across it because they were scanning me for my headaches," she added.
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Frankie Bridge terrified after discovering tumour in neck after headache scan (ITV)Following her brave confession, viewers flocked to X, formerly known as Twitter, to praise Frankie. "Frankie is so brave omg. Never knew she went through all of that," one wrote. "Wow Frankie has been through it," another echoed.
Frankie revealed that she thought the worst when the news was delivered to her, and immediately feared that 'this was it' for her. Opening up about the experience on Loose Women, the mum-of-two said: "
It comes after Frankie previously told The Mirror that her mum's breast cancer diagnosis was a 'huge wake-up call'. “My mum was diagnosed with stage 2, grade 3 breast cancer at the beginning of year. She caught it early but it was quite aggressive. She shielded me from it a lot, so I don’t think I ever saw her at rock bottom, but I saw the chemotherapy taking its toll at the end.
“She’s finished treatment now and is coming out of the other side but it’s not over yet, so it’s scary to talk about. Before I was involved with the charity, I didn’t check my boobs. Because cancer wasn’t in our family, I assumed I didn’t need to worry about it. But my mum’s diagnosis has made me go, ‘Oh God, it could be anyone’. And early diagnosis makes such a big difference.," she added.
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