Strictly Come Dancing's Amy Dowden has opened up about being supported by her BBC One family amid her cancer journey, revealing that the illness taught her 'who her true friends are'.
The Welsh dancer is sharing the last year of harrowing diagnoses and chemotherapy treatments in her new BBC documentary Strictly Amy: Cancer and Me. “When you’re told you’ve got cancer, in a click of the fingers, your life changes,” Amy said. “You have everything stripped away from you.
I had my dancing taken away from me, what I love most in the world.” In the documentary, Amy's Strictly co-star Dianne Buswell makes a cameo as she supports Amy during her cancer treatment.
On what it was like having her friends and family to lean on, Amy said: "Do you know what, you really learn who your true friends and family are during this time and I’m so lucky to have the best. "Just knowing when they need to give me a hug or make me laugh, make me smile, it just helps with being ill.They just know you inside out and having that support and that network around you, I’m forever grateful.