Julie Walters kept her bowel cancer battle a secret from her daughter because she couldn’t “bear the thought” of her worrying about it.
The Mamma Mia! actress, 70, spoke about her battle with the disease for the first time back in February, sharing that she’s been given the all-clear following rounds of chemotherapy and surgery to remove 30cm from her colon.
In addition to keeping her personal struggles out of the public eye, the British star also hid her health battle from her 31-year-old daughter Maisie, because she “couldn’t bear the thought of everyone worrying”.
She told Britain’s Telegraph Magazine: “I told her I needed to have my appendix removed because there was a problem. I couldn’t say the word ‘cancer’ to her.'” The Paddington 2