Exclusive: Elizabeth Hurley reveals enormous sadness over grandmother’s breast cancer battle

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Elizabeth Hurley has spoken from the heart about her "enormous sadness" over losing her grandmother to breast cancer.READ: Remembering Olivia Newton-John - Her family, Dolly Parton, Sir Cliff and more share emotional memoriesAs the Global Ambassador for The Estée Lauder Companies' Breast Cancer Campaign, the actress shared her expertise and knowledge with HELLO!

for our Breast Cancer Awareness Month special. The mother-of-one revealed she is "so proud" of her campaigning efforts and hopes her grandmother would be too.Speaking openly about her own experiences with self-checking and mammograms, Elizabeth has an important message for women everywhere…Elizabeth: That my grandmother didn't talk about her diagnosis, is a source of enormous sadness to me – and I feel that if she'd been diagnosed today with what we know now, with the advances they've made in treatments, with diagnosis, with awareness, the way we talk about it, I feel it could just have been different for her.

For anyone going through this experience, my heart goes out to them as it is an awful experience for any family. There must be a time when we don't talk about any breast cancer awareness anymore because there isn't breast cancer.WATCH: Olivia Newton-John's best momentsElizabeth: I am so proud to have spent over two decades travelling the world discussing the importance of breast health, early detection, and raising funds for research, education, and medical services on behalf of The Estée Lauder Companies' Breast Cancer Campaign.

Elizabeth says her breast cancer campaigning is her most meaningful workI'd like to think that my grandmother would also be proud of the work I've done over the years.