ITV Coronation Street’s Sally Dynevor ‘fainted’ after devastating breast cancer diagnosis
Sally Dynevor, who plays Sally Metcalfe on the Cobbles, issued a plea to fans after admitting she thought it was only older people who got diagnosed with the deadly disease.
Coronation Street actress Sally Dynevor, known for her role as Sally Metcalfe on the Cobbles, has revealed she fainted after she received the heartbreaking news of her breast cancer diagnosis as she thought the nurse had a ‘mix up.’
The 60-year-old had been diagnosed with the deadly disease back in 2009, the same year that her character was battling the disease on the ITV soap when she stumbled across a “very tiny” lump which she got a nurse on site to check it out.
“I was reading the scripts, and I suddenly had a gap,” Sally explained while appearing on BBC Breakfast on Thursday. ” I thought I’m just going to go and see our nurse and see what she thinks because I felt something very, very tiny.”
She added: “When (the doctor) told me ‘You have breast cancer’, I fainted. Then I said ‘I think you’re getting me mixed up with my character’.”
The mum-of-three is now fronting a campaign by Prevent Breast Cancer to improve resources in training the next generation of medical staff to work in breast cancer screening.
She said: “When I got breast cancer, I was 46. And I thought that you didn’t get breast cancer at 46, it was for an older person.
“But yesterday I met a young girl who was 22 when she got diagnosed. So this is really important.” She added: “You never think that’s going to happen to you. When somebody tells you that news, and it comes really out of the blue, it’s really shocking.”
Sally is the proud mum to Bridgerton star Phoebe Dynevor, as well as daughter Harriet and son Samuel. She added: “I have two daughters, I don’t want my daughters to go through what I’ve been through so what Prevent is doing is really important.”
