FRANKIE Bridge has revealed doctors discovered a tumour in her neck last year, admitting she thought, "I’m gonna die".
Former Saturdays singer Frankie, 35, spoke about her health scare for the first time on today's Loose Women while discussing King Charles' shock cancer diagnosis.
The Up songstress explained how the growth was found during an MRI scan for her headaches and that she struggled to "hold it together" while awaiting her results.
She said, “Because I suffer with headaches, I recently had an MRI and just by chance they found something on my neck so I had to have another MRI.
"It turned out to be a tumour, which is benign, it doesn’t need treating, it’s absolutely fine, but for that first week where the doctor had rang me to tell me the result of the MRI, I was on my own."
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Instantly I just thought, ‘That’s it, this is my time'
Frankie Bridge
Frankie, who shares sons Parker, 10, and Carter, eight, with her husband Wayne Bridge, 43, added that she found out the shock news while the footballer was away.
She continued, "I was in the middle of cooking the boys’ dinner and he was like, ‘Oh, we’ve found a tumour. I don’t wanna say what it is yet cos I don’t know. I’m gonna have to present it to a board of other specialists.'
"Instantly I just thought, ‘That’s it, this is my time. I'm gonna be sick or I'm...' you know, I did go straight away to, 'God I'm gonna die,' and I had to kind of hold it together for the boys.
"Luckily for me, the outcome was, 'It's just really rare, it's really unfortunate, we've only come across it cos we were scanning me for the headaches and it will be something that we have to monitor.'
"But that week of not telling the kids, not really telling friends or anything like that, I think I just kind of breezed through the week, I didn't really take anything in."
The Essex-native also spoke about her mum's battle with breast cancer on today's show, who has now recovered.
Reflecting on her diagnosis, she said, "I was actually on the school run. She'd tried ringing me and because I was picking up the boys I'd ignored it, so my dad sent me a message saying, 'You need to answer the phone to your mum.'
"It was a shock and I couldn't properly acknowledge it because the boys got in the car and I'm trying to fight back tears."
The panel had been talking about The King's health scare.
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Buckingham Palace released a statement at 6pm on Monday evening announcing he was undergoing treatment for cancer.
Charles will step back from public engagements while he undergoes treatment, but will continue to receive Red Boxes and State documents and hold a weekly audience with the Prime Minister.
The announcement came just eight days after he was released from hospital following a three-night stay to undergo a "corrective procedure" for an enlarged prostate.
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