Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden has given her first newspaper interview since being diagnosed with breast cancer aged just 32 and said the thought of the tumour inside her made her feel "disgusting". Speaking just days after she had two tumours and three further cancer “specks”, plus some lymph nodes, removed from her right breast, the Strictly star told the Mirror that she was finally beginning to feel like Amy again.
The Caerphilly-born star received the devastating diagnosis in May after returning from her honeymoon with her husband Ben Jones. Earlier this month, she shared a picture of her in hospital saying she was "ready to fight". That was just before she went under the knife.
Now back at home in the West Midlands, she said: "The cancer is in the lab now, which is the most important thing. The hardest time was waiting for surgery, thinking ‘I have cancer inside me’. You’re thinking ‘It’s grade three, what if it’s spreading, what if it spreads tonight?’ The feeling of it made me feel disgusted, disgusting. That’s the time I was randomly crying, emotional. But we drove away and I thought, ‘It’s gone’. I’m a doer, I feel we have done something.”
