Beverley Callard in tears after cancer results delayed
The Coronation Street star received a call from the hospital en-route to a photoshoot for a new soap role.
Coronation Street star Beverley Callard has had her cancer results delayed.
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The actress, who played Liz McDonald on the soap for 30 years, underwent surgery just over a month ago for breast cancer, which she announced earlier this year.
Callard, 69, kept her fans updated on social media and said it would take four weeks for the results of her first operation to come through. The results would indicate whether she is cancer-free.
The actress was on the way to a photoshoot on Friday for her new role in the Irish soap Fair City when she received news of the delay, and shot a video that evening to update her followers.
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She said: "Well, I had to do a photoshoot yesterday and on the way there - it was for a magazine about Fair City - and on the way there, Jon was driving, and I was in the passenger seat. My phone rang, and it said the caller ID. Usually, it's the hospital or one of the consultants from the hospital and I thought 'Okay, this is it, my results.'
"It was one of the amazing cancer care nurses from Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, they are fantastic.
"She wanted to know how I was doing. I told her that I've got quite a lot of soreness, which I've not had for ages but it came on a few days ago.
"She said I could be overdoing things, hopefully I'm not, I've had a lazy day today. But then she said 'No results yet because there is a backlog,' so hopefully I will get them next week."
Callard told her followers about the mental strain of thinking she was about to get her results before a busy day of work: "I can't do this now, I cannot paint a smile on my face again."
She added: "Anyway, I did it. You just do, don't you? Then we went out for some dinner and it was really nice.
"The other thing I was thinking was that Jon's painting the bedroom in our new home and doing all that so it will be lovely for me for radiotherapy, etc, if I am tired, and I just thought 'Oh, I could not go through this by myself.'"
Callard first announced her cancer diagnosis when appearing on RTE's The Late Late Show in February.