“So it just felt quite moving and that made me want to share the story because I thought everyone knows someone that’s got cancer, and I just suddenly felt the need to share it.”

“It was very poignant for me when I got my diagnosis that she had lost her battle and they happened within the same timeframe.

Speaking of her relationship with Dame Olivia, she told PA: “We weren’t close, we only spent one evening together but it was just quite poignant that when we met and had a pretty magical evening she had just been recently diagnosed. Womack recently announced that she had overcome breast cancer five months after revealing her diagnosis last August, following the death of Grease star Dame Olivia Newton-John from the disease. “They certainly shouldn’t be eating from food banks.” “But when you’ve got the people who are working as hard as they are doing the hours they are, not being supported, even if it would have delayed my own personal treatment, I would have been out there fighting with them, because I’m absolutely desperate for them to be paid properly and appropriately for what they do. She told the PA news agency: “I am so aware that often they get used as scapegoats for getting things wrong, when in fact, this is one of the best gifts that we have in this country. The 50-year-old actress described herself as a “huge advocate” and “very passionate” about the NHS, having announced last year that she had been diagnosed with “brutal” breast cancer. Samantha Womack said she would have delayed her own cancer treatment to strike with NHS doctors and nurses “fighting” for better pay because they “shouldn’t be eating from food banks”.

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