Sally Dynevor has opened up about a moment she desired as 'special' with her daughter during her cancer treatment.
The Coronation Street star discovered she had breast cancer in 2009 while filming the same storyline for the soap.
Sally, from Middleton, was filming heartbreaking scenes as her character Sally Metcalfe - or then Webster - who was reeling from the news that she had breast cancer.
It was then she found a small lump in her own breast and went to see a nurse at ITV to get checked.
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The 58-year-old, who is competing on ITV's Dancing On Ice, underwent treatment at The Christie and after a six-month break she returned to the Corrie.
Both actor and character went on to make full recoveries.
Sally has now recalled how her daughter Harriet, also known as Hattie, had called her "beautiful" as she was having her hair shaved amid chemotherapy.
"There’s another memory,” she told The Big Issue magazine. "I’d just found out I’d got breast cancer and Harriet was only little, five or six.
"She was looking at me while my hair was being shaved and she was telling me how beautiful I was and how much she loved me.
"And I just remember thinking, my God, this is a very special moment."
Sally has three children Phoebe, 26, Samuel, 24, and 18-yearold Harriet with her Emmerdale writer husband Tim Dynevor who she married in 1995.
And she was also full of praise for her husband for making her treatment feel like a "positive time".
"I was very lucky during that time of having cancer, because my husband is really strong," she said.
"And he would say, we’re going to make this into a positive time.
"After chemo, we’re going to go for walks, or we’re going to watch this box set.
"We’re going to enjoy the time that we have just relaxing and not worrying about anything."
Sally, who was made an MBE for services to drama in the 2021 New Year Honours, made it through to Movie Week on Dancing On Ice following her debut performance last weekend.
The full interview is in The Big Issue. Buy a copy from your local vendor, donate to The Big Issue’s Winter Appeal or subscribe online.
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