Loose Women star rushes to hug Penny Lancaster as she breaks down in tears

Penny Lancaster broke down successful tears connected Loose Women today, causing her co-host to unreserved to comfortableness her.

Hosts Nadia Sawalha, Charlene White, Penny Lancaster, and Frankie Bridge discussed the taxable of breast cancer connected the show’s latest episode, sharing stories of however they’d personally been affected by the condition.

Penny began to explicate however she has a radical of adjacent friends she calls ‘her concealed circle.’

She past showed a representation of the group, including her maid-of-honour and sister-in-law, Louise, Rod Stewart’s sister.

She began: ‘I person this radical of girls called the concealed circle, and that sanction came astir conscionable earlier I got joined – determination they are – my maid of honour Louise, she…’

The big past broke down successful tears, stifling sobs.

Charlene rapidly roseate to her feet, exclaiming, ‘Oh, Pen,’ and rushed to the different broadside of the sheet to clasp and comfortableness her co-host and friend.

Penny soon gathered herself capable to talk arsenic Nadia asked, ‘And that’s your sister-in-law, Louise?’

Penny nodded successful confirmation earlier continuing: ‘The comic happening is she ne'er cried astir it; I’ve conscionable been crying for her. She is incredibly strong. It was astir 14 years agone she was diagnosed. And we did a locomotion for her, maine and my concealed circle. And backmost past it was astir 1 successful 9 who was diagnosed, of course, present its 1 and 7.’

The host, who’s been joined to Stewart since 2007, had to erstwhile again choke backmost tears.

She went on, her dependable breaking: ‘And we benignant of sat down afterward, aft the walk, and we said, “You know, it could beryllium 1 of us.” Very soon afterwards, it was my 3rd IVF, I fell large and I was truthful excited to archer them the quality and they didn’t privation to person to archer maine successful that aforesaid telephone telephone that Louise had recovered a lump.

‘She was truthful brave and she was lone 36! So with the NHS lone screening astatine 50, women nether the property of 50 indispensable bash that self-check due to the fact that that was the lone mode she recovered it due to the fact that of the proposal bosom crab attraction had fixed and astir the checking.’

She concluded: ‘Women nether the property of 40, their breasts are overmuch much dense. So it’s harder to really observe those lumps.

‘There’s a misconception that there’s nary symptom with bosom crab and she felt pain.’

Louise has antecedently spoken astir her acquisition battling crab and discovering a lump successful her bosom the aforesaid time that Penny and her member Rod Stewart discovered they were pregnant.

She told The Daily Mail: ‘I got up, and arsenic I did, I abruptly realised my close bosom was sore and uncomfortable. I pressed the thenar of my manus level connected to my nipple, and straight down it I felt a lump. It was similar a transverse betwixt a pea and a wide bean.’

She soon discovered she had signifier 3 bosom cancer, a diagnosis she subsequently overcame done treatment.

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