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Hollyoaks star Ali Bastian emotionally says 'I don't feel like a fighter' in update amid cancer battle


Ali Bastian has posted an emotional message as she receives treatment for breast cancer, with the former Hollyoaks and Strictly star explaining her journey is a rocky one

Doctors initially thought it could be a blocked duct, but when antibiotics failed to clear things up, she went to a specialist clinic where tests revealed the cancer. Her husband David O’Mahony added: “I was with the kids and Ali stuck her head round the door and said that cancerous cells had turned up in the biopsy. The actress, who appeared as Becca Dean in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks from 2001 to 2007, explained on Instagram that she was feeling a major burn out caused by life in London and the challenges that followed her second pregnancy being some of the reasons she moved.

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