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Emmerdale's Lisa Riley on the tragic reason she'll never marry US musician fiancé


EXCLUSIVE: As Lisa Riley gears up to celebrate 30 years on Emmerdale, the actress - who plays Mandy Dingle in the ITV soap - has opened up about losing her mum to breast cancer and her own fears over the disease

In an exclusive heart-to-heart with OK!, she shares that following the heartbreaking loss of her friend and Strictly co-star Robin Windsor last year, she's turned to therapy – a step she hadn't taken even after the death of her dear mother Cath from secondary breast cancer in 2012, when she was just 58. In a candid chat with OK!, Lisa also divulges details about her life with American musician Al and the heartbreaking reason marriage isn't in the cards for her. And with Chas being my close cousin, doing the breast cancer story, I had people coming up to me in the street, saying, ‘Thank you so much.’ If we’re showing mammograms and smears on Emmerdale, hopefully, it can help to save lives.

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