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‘It’s just a heavy period – nothing to worry about.’

That was what the doctors had said to me when I was rushed into hospital after collapsing from severe bleeding (for the fourth time in as many years).

I still have those words ringing in my ears now. Ringing, banging, screaming, SHOUTING in my ears. Because that turned out not to be the case.

I was actually suffering from the aggravated stage (i.e. very dangerous) of cervical cancer. What’s more, I’d been carrying the nasty disease around with me for at least the last two years.

And, despite all the tests I’d had, it hadn’t been detected.

I was now being told that, if nothing had been done about it, I’d have been dead within three months. I’ve had some things thrown at me in my time but this took the bloody biscuit. Was there anything more that could happen to me?

Just like everything else in my life, the news that I had cancer was played out in the most public way possible – on live TV. In a weird twist of fate I was now a housemate on Bigg Boss – the Indian version of Celebrity Big Brother. And it was here, in the familiar surroundings of a diary room chair, that I was once again told my fate. Only this time I wasn’t being told that I should put on some clothes or be quiet; I wasn’t being told that the public wanted me out; I was being told something much more serious, and something that I had absolutely no control over.

I had cancer.

And I needed to go back to the UK for treatment immediately.

The night before I flew home I lay in the bath in my hotel room for what seemed like hours. I felt numb. How had it come to this? Why hadn’t it been detected before? Was I going to die? What would my boys do if something happened to me? Does this mean I can never have kids again? If I stay in this bath any longer am I going to turn into a prune?

Ironically, what upset me most of all at that time was the fact that I had to leave India just as I was starting to redeem myself for all that had happened …