
Nicola McLean has been left shaken after a secret cancer scare, which had her fearing she was going to die.
The former glamour model, 43, discovered a lump in her breast in November and admits she automatically thought the worst.
Sitting down for an exclusive interview with new, Nicola candidly says, “I found a lump on my breast while I was moisturizing and immediately I broke down in tears and thought, ‘What if it’s cancer?’
“Straight away I thought, ‘I’m going to die,’” continues Nicola, who has suffered with severe anxiety for several years.
“Something like this makes my mind go into overdrive. As someone who has anxiety anyway, this was just awful.”
The mum of two, who appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2012 and again in 2017, has been married to former footballer Tom Williams since 2009. The couple have two children, Rocky, 18, and Striker, 14. And while she informed her husband straight away after finding the lump, Nicola says she couldn’t face telling their sons.
This story is from the February 03, 2025 edition of New UK.
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