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20th December 2017
05:45pm GMT
“Other people were writing me off quicker and even people close to me, they’d come and - I don’t mean to be unkind - but people were embarrassed or didn’t know what to say. “They come in and they’re feeling very sorry and very pitiful, and actually it’s the worst - the one thing that nobody wants is pity."Bracknell played Zoe Tate in Emmerdale until 2005 when she left the popular ITV drama.
Her terminal diagnosis came to light in October of 2016 when her partner, Jez Hughes, set up a GoFubdMe page to try and get Bracknell to Germany for treatment.
He raised over £50,000.
Despite her diagnosis, Bracknell said that she is not going to be negative because her cancer is "part of one's life."
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