Liz Hurley fights back tears as she reveals her best friend is fighting breast cancer

The actress opened up on the disease
Safeeyah Kazi9 October 2018

Liz Hurley was left fighting back the tears after she poured her heart out on This Morning, revealing that one of her closest friends is battling late-stage breast cancer.

The Royals actress became visibly emotional on Tuesday after she explained that her friend, who is in her 40s and married with children, is currently battling the disease.

The 53-year-old explained: “I have a very good friend of mine. I've just discovered she found a lump and she didn't tell anyone.

“She sat on it, she finally went to the doctor and has been diagnosed. It's a late-stage breast cancer.”

The actress went on to explain that she “bullies” her female-friends into getting check in a bid to catch any diagnoses early.

She added: “It affects everybody. Many women are checking their own breasts, but I bully all my friends – have you had a mammogram this year

"I had a mammogram for my 40th birthday. I've had many since then.

Hurley previously revealed that her grandmother died of breast cancer.

Speaking on Loose Women last year, she revealed: “They didn't talk about it [then] and she didn't talk about it and it's a source of enormous sadness to me that I feel if she'd been diagnosed today with what we know now.

“With the advances they've made in treatments, with diagnosis, with awareness, the way we talk about it, I feel it could just have been different for her.”

Describing how her grandmother would have felt at the time, Hurley admitted she would have probably been “scared” and “embarrassed” to speak out due to stigma.

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