Coleen Nolan breaks down in tears for first time since sister Linda’s cancer spread to her brain: ‘I’ve felt really numb’-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro

Coleen Nolan has shared her reaction to sister Linda’s cancer news, revealing that she hadn’t cried in the week since they found out it had spread to her brain.

The singer, 64, who first found fame with her sisters in the girl group The Nolans in the 1970s, appeared on Monday’s Good Morning Britain to announce the news and share plans for her latest treatment.

Describing the diagnosis as ‘very frightening’, Linda acknowledged that there ‘isn’t much help for brain cancer’ apart from radiotherapy, which she is going to undergo.

On top of that, there’s a new medication that’s been in use for a year that she’s going to try as a chemo drug.

‘I’m positive, I’m not giving up,’ she affirmed, adding that she’s going to end up losing her hair for a fourth time as she continues her decades-long battle against cancer.

Addressing her older sister’s approach to her latest diagnosis, Coleen, 58, explained that the had been ‘made stronger’ by Linda’s positivity.

Coleen shared that Linda’s positivity in the face of the news made her stronger (Picture: ITV)

She also said she had been afraid to cry yet before bursting into tears on TV (Picture: ITV)

Linda has been battling cancer on and off since 2005 (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Rex/Shutterstock)

‘It rubs off on you – you hear her talk and she’s positive about it, so it makes you stronger,’ she told her fellow panellists on Loose Women

‘But it’s so weird because this time, even since Monday, I haven’t cried because I’ve felt really numb

‘I’ve just thought, I’m so sick of it. It just attacks my family all the time, and I know a lot of people go through it but selfishly you think of yourself.’

The TV star was then moved to tears as he dwelled on the subject, admitting:  ‘And I’m scared of crying because I don’t think I’ll stop, so… I’m going to cry now so can you move on?’

She was comforted by Ruth Langsford, who passed her tissues, as well as Janet Street-Porter and Brenda Edwards.

Linda, Maureen, Coleen and Bernie Nolan altogether in 2009. Bernie died of cancer in 2013 aged just 52 (Picture: Jeremy Craine/Rex/Shutterstock)

Linda was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, before diagnosed with incurable secondary breast cancer which had spread to her hip in 2017.

Three years later, she revealed that the cancer had spread to her liver, with more tumours being discovered.

She also lost her husband Brian Hudson to the disease in 2007.

A source recently told The Mirror about the falls Linda had experienced as of late, saying that her family ‘are extremely worried now and are rallying round to support and care for her’.

‘Linda doesn’t feel safe in her home alone now,’ they said, adding: ‘‘Everyone’s hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst.’

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In 2013, Linda’s sister Bernie Nolan died at the age of 52 after suffering from cancer.

In 2020, Linda and her sister Anne Nolan both shared that had both been diagnosed with cancer, and were undergoing chemotherapy at Victoria Hospital in Blackpool.

The siblings received their diagnoses days apart, with The Nolans saying in a statement: ‘We will get through this together, as a family.’

Loose Women airs weekdays at 12:30pm on ITV1.

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