Linda Nolan has revealed she has started to plan her funeral after she was diagnosed with brain cancer.
The 64-year-old confirmed in a heartbreaking interview on Good Morning Britain last month that the cancer had spread to her brain. The singer was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in 2005 but got the all-clear in 2006.
In 2017, cancer returned in her hip and spread to her liver in 2020. Linda's brain cancer diagnosis came after three falls prompted a scan. and found the tumour on the left side of her brain is impacting her right side, causing balance loss - as Mirror Online reports.
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Linda has vowed to battle the illness as she has just finished 11 radiotherapy sessions, and is on steroids awaiting the results of a second MRI scan to see if the brain tumours have shrunk. Linda will then start taking new chemotherapy drug Tucatinib, which she hopes will give her "more time”. Linda lost her husband Brian and younger sister Bernie to cancer, and watched eldest sister Anne successfully fight it.
She said she has followed the lead of her relatives as she is beginning to makes plans for her funeral. She said: "Brian organised his funeral and it was amazing.
“Bernie arranged hers. It’s easier for people left behind. I’ve gone into it a little bit. A Neil Sedaka song, Our Last Song Together. And I know the funeral people I’m going to use.
“Brian’s coffin was like a flight case, with ‘This way up’, ‘Fragile’ on it. Our auntie had a beautiful coffin with pictures of us around it."
Linda admits she is renowned as the "blingy Nolan" and said she has identified a fitting coffin. She added: "Then Maureen said ‘Look at this coffin, it was made for you, it’s pink glitter’.”
She has even considered making memory boxes for her family. She said: "It would mean leaving about 30!” she says, laughing again. “It would become like a little production line. You can imagine them all lined up, how morbid, and working out what to give them –them saying ‘She got a bloody silver bracelet, she got a bronze ring!’”
Linda is remaining positive in her fight against the illness but admitted she has confronted death for the first time. She said: "I am positive, but I have my moments when I slide down the wall in a heap. What happens? Is it dark, are you on your own? I’m frightened of the unknown and being on my own, I have always been with people.”
Linda explained she is now focused on creating special memories with her loved ones. She said: "I’m looking to book a big house for us in the Lake District so we can just make memories, it’s all about using precious time."
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