BBC Countryfile's Julia Bradbury opens up on 'intense' stalker hell and cancer battle

Countryfile presenter Julia Bradbury has opened up connected her conflict with crab and her harrowing acquisition with obsessed stalkers - 1 of whom posted "horrible, rambling letters" done her door

Julia Bradbury has revealed the terrifying ordeals she faced with stalkers, pursuing her emergence to fame connected Countryfile. The beloved presenter opened up astir receiving 'horrible, rambling letters' which near her feeling targeted and scared.

Along with her on-screen success, Julia has had a brushwood with the darker aspects of personage life. She told the Telegraph: "I've been skinny shamed galore times connected societal media. I americium skinny, I've ever been skinny. I've got exposed collarbones. I had tons of 'Oh my God, she looks ill, has she got cancer? ' Before I was diagnosed with it – conscionable due to the fact that radical could spot my collarbones."

In a distressing revelation, Julia recounts however stalkers person tormented her: "Somebody recovered retired wherever I lived and posted horrible, rambling letters done whitethorn doorway – saying things similar 'I cognize erstwhile you're looking astatine maine done the lens,' and 'I cognize that you cognize what I'm thinking.' It was precise intense."

Thankfully, the constabulary were capable to measurement in, but Julia recalled: "I've got friends who person not been truthful lucky," hinting astatine little fortunate outcomes for others. Her idiosyncratic wellness scare besides compounded her concerns.

Speaking to Chris Evans, she said: "I consciousness similar I've looked decease successful the eyes," citing her diagnosis with breast cancer and the trouble successful detecting it owed to dense bosom tissue, a situation that affects astir 40% of women, reports the Daily Record.

She recounted the chilling moment: "I was really distant filming successful Costa Rica and I was successful the edifice bath and I felt a lump successful my near breast."

Once backmost connected location turf, she hastily contacted her GP. The lump was initially dismissed arsenic a benign micro-cyst, but Julia highlighted that for 30 to 40% of women with dense breasts, mammograms tin beryllium deceptively reassuring: "You mightiness locomotion distant reasoning you're each wide and that mightiness not beryllium the case," she warned.

Julia's ain wellness scare was astir missed: "Mine was missed a mates of times. Eventually, I was leaving my doctor's bureau and helium said 'I'll conscionable springiness you 1 much ultra dependable earlier you permission to spell disconnected connected your holiday, and I won't spot you for a year."

It was past a minuscule acheronian speck raised alarm - "Then helium noticed a tiny acheronian pin-prick and said 'I don't similar that. We request to get that biopsied close away.' That was a twelvemonth and a spot aft I had archetypal discovered the lump."

But acknowledgment to her doctor's insistence, Julia's communicative took a crook for the better. She acknowledges the gravity of her circumstance: "I wasn't adjacent to decease with my crab but I consciousness similar I've looked decease successful the eyes. It's been a monolithic aftermath up call."