Actress Lynda Bellingham confirms terminal cancer
Actress Lynda Bellingham has confirmed she has terminal cancer and will stop her chemotherapy within weeks.
Lynda Bellingham: 'The day I decided when I will die'
Lynda Bellingham has revealed how she told doctors and her husband Michael Pattermore she will stop her chemotherapy.
In an autobiography due to be published next month and serialised in the Mail on Sunday, she wrote:
The 66-year-old star, best known for her long-running role as a mum in the Oxo TV adverts, has been battling colon cancer, which later spread to the lungs and liver, since being diagnosed in July last year.
"The time has come to cease and desist. I would love to make one more Christmas, if possible, but I want to stop taking chemo around November in order to pass away by the end of January," she wrote.
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