Coleen says getting Alzheimer's is her 'biggest fear'
Coleen Nolan shared yesterday that she had been diagnosed with skin cancer, but also admitted that being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease was her “biggest fear”.
During Loose Women on Tuesday afternoon, Coleen and her panellists Charlene White, Brenda Edwards and Kelle Bryan discussed the medical breakthrough for a drug to battle early onset Alzheimer’s.
First touching on the new drug, Coleen admitted that it had been the “miracle we’ve been waiting for” after watching her mother suffer from the disease for five years.
When asked whether she was worried about getting the disease, Coleen admitted that it was her “biggest fear”, often worrying she was masking the symptoms with the menopause.
She explained: “There was nothing around at the time so people going ‘Well if you could be tested to see if you carry the gene?’ I was like ‘No because there is nothing they can do’.”
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Charlene interjected and asked: “Are you scared about it?” to which Coleen immediately admitted: “Scared? It’s my biggest fear, my biggest fear.
“Unfortunately, when you get to a certain age and you do start getting a bit forgetful and when you’re going through the menopause and everyone goes ‘It’s the menopause’.
“It’s menopause brain it makes you forgetful’ but for me it’s panic and I panic every time.”
She added that she often worries when she can’t remember where she has placed something or forgetting someone’s name.
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Touching on the death of her mother, Coleen admitted that watching her health decline was “cruel” and meant she lost her faith.
She added that she was “still traumatised” as unfortunately her mother was diagnosed with the more aggressive form, meaning she was often mean and horrible to Coleen and her sisters.
Opening up about her skin cancer yesterday, she explained: “It hits you like a ton of bricks. It was so shocking that my first instinct, typical me, was to laugh hysterically.
“I just thought that was the most ridiculous thing. I’m sick of cancer. It seemed so pathetic.”
Loose Women airs weekdays from 12:30pm on ITV.
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