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The Crown’s Olivia Williams Says She’ll Never Be Cancer-Free Due to Misdiagnoses During ‘4 Years I’d Been Saying I Was Ill’

‘The Crown’ actress Olivia Williams revealed she will never be cancer-free due to being misdiagnosed ‘in the four years I’d been saying I was ill.’ She said doctors told her that she ‘was menopausal or had irritable bowel syndrome or [was] crazy.’

The Crown actress opened up about her four-year health mystery, which resulted in a pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 2018 when she was 46, in an interview with the U.K.’s The Times published on Saturday, April 19. Williams, now 56, noted that she experienced aching limbs, fatigue and chronic diarrhea for years — and had visited 10 doctors in three different countries in a search for answers. TheSixth Sense actress explained that by the time doctors removed the tumor, it had already spread to her liver, “which, as anyone involved in the cancer life knows, is the worst news.”

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