EastEnders' Cheryl Fergison on her brutal addiction to self harm - 'it took years but I'm in a good place now'
ok.co.ukFor anyone who has been through cancer the end of treatment is often a time to celebrate. But for former EastEnders favourite Cheryl Fergison it signalled only the start of a second nightmare involving years of self harm.
Having been diagnosed with cancer of the womb in 2015 and subsequently undergoing a hysterectomy and five week course of radiotherapy she continued to wrongly believe that cancer cells remained in her body.That psychological stress led her to start to start to hurt herself.
Despite reassurance that doctors would monitor her for years to come and indeed getting the five-year sign-off in 2020, Cheryl took matters into her own hands - with terrible results. “In my head, I thought I still had cancer cells in me.
Doctors had talked about having done a ‘washing’ procedure as part of the surgery so I thought right, I’ll wash myself, I’ll wash these cells away,” recalled Cheryl, 58, who played Heather Trott for half a decade on the soap. “So every day, sometimes twice a day, I would get a shower head and get the water at its hottest setting - as much as I could bear - and use it in the same area. “I was doing this for years.
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