ER actress Alex Kingston, who performed Dr. Elizabeth Corday on the hit medical drama, was in the midst of a manufacturing at an English theater in the summertime of 2024 when she acquired an enormous signal that every one was not properly along with her physique.

“That evening on stage, I hemorrhaged," Kingston stated in an interview with The Independent revealed Friday. "That was actually surprising."

The present referred to as for the actress to put on knee pads and a Tudor gown, so she was in a position to camouflage the blood.

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"I simply knocked my knees collectively and prayed that it could soak every part up," Kingston stated. "The wardrobe girls have been unbelievable. I ran off stage and stated, 'Seize me some pads!' We shoved some pads in my pants and I went again on stage and carried on. That was how we completed the present."

Kingston, 62, was on ER from 1997 to 2004, starting in season 4, and she or he reprised the function in 2009, for its fifteenth and remaining season.

She had felt bloated and achy for some time — as soon as even had blood in her urine — however she thought it was a part of getting old. She lastly sought assist and was discovered to have most cancers in her fallopian tubes.

"I by no means went down the most cancers street in my head,” stated Kingston, who's additionally appeared on TV's Physician Who and within the film Alpha Canine. “It was a shock, as a result of I’ve a really optimistic outlook on life typically. Regardless that my physique was telling me there was one thing very significantly incorrect, I stored pondering, 'Oh, I've acquired a foul UTI or fibroids.'"

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So, she underwent therapy.

"I had a significant operation," Kingston stated. "I needed to have a hysterectomy, I had to enter radiation remedy, and that took up an enormous a part of my life."

This yr is totally different, although, as a result of she's wholesome sufficient to be a part of the forged of Strictly Come Dancing, the U.Ok.'s equal to Dancing With the Stars.

"Regardless of having gone via all of that — and any most cancers is actually powerful to just accept, to metal your self to undergo all the essential procedures to get again into well being, the minute I had the operation, I all of a sudden felt like myself once more," Kingston stated.

The truth is, she stated that, after ending therapy final yr, "I really feel like Superwoman."

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