‘Still standing’: Crying Tracy Shaw shares powerful cancer fight update
Coronation Street star Tracy Shaw has shared a powerful update amid her breast cancer journey, announcing that she is ‘still standing’.
The Maxine Peacock actress revealed her diagnosis earlier this year and has kept her social media followers updated while undergoing treatment.
Now, she has shared a post to Instagram following her second chemotherapy session, admitting that it ‘hit hard’.
Alongside the video, which showed several pictures of Tracy, as well as a video of her crying, she explained that she was ‘prepared for side effects this time,’ before thanking her followers for their support.
‘Grateful chemo is hitting hard because imagine how the HER2 positive cancer feels,’ she continued. ‘I’m still standing.’
The comments on the post were full of well-wishes, with EastEnders actress Lucy Benjamin writing: ‘Oh my darlin.’
Other followers sent love to Tracy, while some shared their own experiences with chemotherapy and cancer.
Tracy previously revealed why she had chosen to share her cancer journey during an appearance on Lorraine earlier this month.
‘It isn’t an easy path,’ she said. ‘I’m only sharing it because there are millions of ladies and gentlemen who are going through the same thing and it’s just not a very nice piece of the disease, chemo really.’
She went on to discuss how ‘everyone is affected’ when a loved one receives a cancer diagnosis.
‘The whole family and all the people who are following and messaging at the moment – those mothers with sons, younger sons or with sons my age, the family members are messaging.
‘Sometimes just by me sharing about what the effects are, they understand how that person might be feeling, because you don’t know.’
As Lorraine praised her for speaking out, Tracy revealed that she knew of some women who had been diagnosed after following her posts.
‘It’s quite remarkable that when we do speak out, we do help others,’ she reflected.
Soap fans will best know Tracy for her role as Maxine in Corrie, who she played from 1995 until the character’s death in 2003.
Maxine fell victim to serial killer Richard Hillman in one of the show’s most iconic scenes, in which the sinister murderer told her that she ‘should have stayed at the party’.
