Actress and presenter Lisa Faulkner, 54, has provided an emotional health update to her followers after revealing that she is battling breast cancer. On Thursday, she shared the shock diagnosis and disclosed that she had already undergone surgery and is now awaiting a course of radiotherapy.
Thank You Messages
On Instagram, Faulkner expressed gratitude to her legions of followers for their heartfelt support over the past few days. She wrote: “Thank you for all of your support and your lovely messages. I promise I will read every word. So many of you going through this or someone who is. Your love and kindness has really touched me and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
Career and Personal Life
Lisa Faulkner has had a string of roles on television shows such as The Lover, Dangerfield, Brookside, Holby City, Spooks, Burn It, Murder in Suburbia, New Street Law, Murdoch Mysteries, EastEnders and The Girl Before, as well as narrating the BBC's Heir Hunters. It was while competing on Celebrity Masterchef in 2010 that she met her future husband, John Torode, who was a judge on the series. Faulkner went on to win the contest, and the couple married nine years later in 2019.
Diagnosis and Surgery
In her Instagram post, Faulkner explained why she had been inactive on the platform in recent weeks. She wrote: “I know I’ve been very quiet on here, reason being I have had to have surgery for the early stages of breast cancer. I had surgery two weeks ago, it was quite a big op but it’s all good and I’ve my results back and they’ve got everything out. So it’s all clear and I just need now to have some radiotherapy in a few weeks. I just wanted to say I’ve got a bit of healing to do but I’m good. I’m well and feeling so much better and I’m so grateful I went for my mammogram.”
Encouragement to Others
Faulkner urged her followers not to delay mammograms, stating: “I just wanted to say don’t put them off, go, because they found this and without that mammogram it wouldn’t have been picked up. Thank you to our wonderful NHS and the fact we can have these mammograms and we can get treatment early.”
