The star took to Instagram to post an emotional update.
Fromer Coronation Street star Tracy Shaw recently revealed she has breast cancer (Image: ITV)
Coronation Street star Tracy Shaw, who played Maxine Peacock on the ITV soap for over seven years, has tearfully admitted, “I can’t go through this,” amidst her gruelling breast cancer battle. The 52, year old announced in an Instagram post last month she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. At the time revealed her original treatment plan had been derailed whens he tested positive for HER2 positive (human epidermal growth factor receptor 2) which meant she had to undergo chemotherapy.
In her latest update the star, who cut off her long hair and donated it to the Little Princess Trust charity in advance of treatment, revealed she hadn’t yet begun chemo but the strain was taking it’s toll. she was clearly emotional in an Instagram in which she spoke to camera in close up while wearing a scarf on her head. She opened with the disclaimer she is not an expert at technical things or Instagram. “I’m just going to be me,” she said.
Coronation Street legend Tracy Shaw has given and update on her cancer treatment (Image: Tracy Shaw Instagram)
“And my truth is… by the way, I’ve not shaved my hair off, I’ve just put a scarf on just because I’ve not done anything with it and I’m going to hospital,” she clarified.
“Each morning I wake up and know that I have to go into hospital and receive more news, which has been going on for a long time, that unknown… I just think, ‘I can’t go through with this anymore,’ but I’ve not even started my journey.
“I’ve had a good cry. I’ll go in later today and I’ll meet some other ladies who will start the treatment with me – chemo.
“And I’ll find out the date. 50 per cent of me wants to get going. I want to know that it’s being shrunk and the cancer is being dealt with.
Tracy Shaw spent six year’s playaing Maxine Peacock on Coronation Street (Image: PA)
“When I wake up and I’ve got really bad headaches or I can feel another twinge in my other boob, I just think, ‘Oh, it’s moving!’” she admitted.
“All forms of cancer are awful, most of the time, I get on with life but then I think that’s probably what we do.
“But the fact is when you wake up in the morning and you think ‘It hasn’t gone away.’ It isn’t like the addictions that I’ve recovered from by the grace of God. There appears to be a long road ahead, or a mountain,” she concluded.
Tracy has previously credited a daily 12-step programme for helping her recover from “many addictions” in the past, including alcoholism, drugs and eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia.
