Beverley Callard gives health update ahead of breast cancer treatment starting
Beverley Callard has updated fans on how she is doing ahead of her treatment for early-stage breast cancer starting on Wednesday (11.02.26).
Beverley Callard is feeling "positive and strong" just days before starting treatment for early-stage breast cancer.
The actress is home in Norfolk after doctors urged her to return to the UK from Ireland after she got her diagnosis 20 minutes before shooting her first scenes in Dublin-based soap Fair City, and Beverley starts treatment on Wednesday (11.02.26).
In a video shared to Instagram on Sunday (08.02.26), she told her fans: "I'm feeling really positive, and I'm very strong.
"I begin hospital stuff and everything now I'm home. Everything begins this week.
"On Wednesday, they're testing lymph nodes and lymph glands and all of that, and I will keep everyone updated."
Also in the video, Beverley, 68, thanked her supporters for their love and support.
The star - best known for playing icon Liz McDonald in Coronation Street from 1989 until 2020 - said: "I really want to say thank you so much to everyone for your wonderful messages. Everybody's been truly fantastic ...
"I'm so appreciative of all the love that's coming. Thank you."
On February 6, Beverley announced her breast cancer diagnosis during an appearance on The Late Late Show.
She told 55-year-old host Patrick Kielty: "It's difficult to know where to start.
"I knew I was coming over here for four weeks, and then I'd have a couple of weeks back in the UK, and then back here - for a long time
"I'd had some tests just before I left the UK and literally 15 to 20 minutes before [her first scene] I was in my dressing room at Fair City, getting ready to go on, and I was quite nervous and thinking, 'I hope everybody thinks I'm all right, whatever.'
"And my consultant rang me and said, 'You've got to come back to the UK.' I said, 'Well, I can't possibly, you know, I've just taken a new job, I'm away for a month.'
"I was diagnosed with breast cancer."
Beverley stressed in her interview with Patrick that she is doing well and is relieved that doctors caught the disease in its early stages.
She said: "I'm fine. I'm absolutely fine. My head was a bit mashed for the first few days. It's very early stages, and I'm along with, you know, thousands of other women as well.
"It's early stages. I travel back to the UK tomorrow (07.02.26), just for a couple of weeks. They're going to test lymph nodes and lymph glands and all that."
The I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! 2020 campmate is determined not to let her health ordeal stop her from playing Lily, the long-lost mum of Carrigstown resident Gwen, played by co-star Emily Lamey, in Fair City.
Beverley said: "I need an operation and some radiotherapy, and then I'm coming back to Fair City, so I will be back in just a few weeks."
