David Tennant's wife made plans for own funeral after chilling cancer diagnosis
David Tennant's wife Georgia Tennant started planning her own funeral before she'd even made it upstairs to tell her husband.
The mum-of-five, who has been married to the Doctor Who star since 2011, urged women to book their cervical cancer screenings after having a terrifying personal experience. The actress, now 39, said her children were at the forefront of her mind when she saw abnormalities in her smear test.
Georgia admitted that she instantly assumed the worst and heartbreakingly began making mental plans for her funeral as she went straight to tell David. In 2018, she shared a post on her personal blog to raise awareness of cervical cancer and the importance of booking regular smear tests.
Georgia said a simple smear test saved her life after it flagged abnormal cells (Instagram)
The couple have been married since 2011 and share five children (Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)Alongside a picture of herself in her hospital gown, she wrote: "Here I am on 22nd February 2018. Although 'tis indeed a fetching look, if you'd like to learn more about why you should never miss a smear test please read the story attached in bio." Georgia continued: "Before I'd made it up upstairs to tell my husband, I'd started planning my funeral. Having kids takes you to that place pretty quickly I find."
Recalling the time when she returned to the doctor's office, Georgia found out she had CIN 2 - known as pre-cancer. Doctors were then forced to perform a cervical excision on the actress and discovered it had progressed to cancer. The mum-of-five penned: "The lovely doctor called yesterday. Results are back. It was cancer. They've got it all but it was cancer. Survived cancer without ever realising I had it.
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"As you can tell I'm still processing this, it's quite a thing to get your head round. My betraying little cervix had begun an attempt to kill me off and by a stroke of baffling luck I had stopped it, beat it, cut it out before it had a chance to make it out of the starting gates (that's dog racing speak for 'hadn't spread beyond the layers they'd already removed')."
Georgia then urged others to take the smear test, as she wrote: "If the first part of the story didn't hit home, I hope this bit does. From borderline changes to cancer to cancer-free in mere months. It really could have been a different story. One I will be forever grateful I didn't have to tell."
Georgia and David have been married since 2011. The pair share children Ty, 21, Olive, 12, Wilfred, 10, Doris, eight, and Birdie, three. Ty, who is Georgia's son from a previous relationship when she was 17, has been adopted by David and is now following in his parents' footsteps as an actor.
*For information and support for cervical cancer, please visit www.jostrust.org.uk or call 0808 802 8000
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