FORMER Hollyoaks star Ali Bastian has shared a heartbreaking update amid her cancer battle.
The actress took to her social media to give her fans an update on her progress with her serious condition.
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Ali, 42, previously revealed that she was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer.
The former Channel 4 star admitted that she was left in shock when medical professionals relayed the devastating news.
She initially consulted doctors after she found a lump when she was breastfeeding her daughter Isabella.
Now, the former Hollyoaks star gave a new update to her fans on her Instagram story as treatment starts to take its toll.
The star posted a snap of herself dressed in a casual baggy grey t-shirt as her head was covered by a pink headscarf.
In a candid caption she wrote: “Some days you don[‘t] my feel like the fighter people tell you you are, and that’s ok too.
“This is not an easy path. There is cortisol in tears and they are better out than in.”
However, she revealed that she was soon left in giggles after her brother-in-law sent her a funny video of the Muppets.
Aside from her role as Becca Dean in between 2001 and 2007, she’s also known for her appearances in the BBC One series, Doctors.
She also took part in the seventh series of Strictly Come Dancing where she came in third place.
The former soap sensation is currently undergoing weekly chemotherapy sessions.
She’s also set to undergo a mastectomy and radiotherapy treatment early next year in order to fight back against the disease.
Reflecting on the news, she previously confessed to OK! magazine: “It was a total shock. I have mornings when I wake up and I’ve forgotten… and then suddenly I remember. I’m still trying to process it.”
Doctors initially believed her lump could have been a blocked duct, but prescribed antibiotics failed to stop the soreness.
This is not an easy path. There is cortisol in tears and they are better out than in.
Ali Bastian
She had tests conducted at a specialist clinic which revealed she had cancer.
Her husband David O’Mahony said: “I was with the kids and Ali stuck her head round the door and said that cancerous cells had turned up in the biopsy.
“She said it in the most subtle way so the girls didn’t twig. I could see how scared and in shock she was.
“It’s so tempting to try and ‘positive’ your way through news like this but it just hit us like a sledgehammer.
“I just had a feeling of it being so unfair that Ali had been dealt this hand.”
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