Linda Nolan's heartbreaking fear about death as sister confirms cause wasn't cancer
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Linda Nolan opened up about her worrying health decline just a week before she tragically passed away aged 65. The Nolans star, who shot to fame alongside her sisters more than 50 years ago, died earlier this week following a diagnosis of secondary breast cancer. The Irish singer was first told she had breast cancer in 2005 and went into remission a year later. But in 2017, she was diagnosed with secondary cancer in her hip, which spread to her liver and then her brain.
The Daily Mirror columnist died with her sisters at her side on Wednesday and her final moments were said to have been full of 'love and comfort'. Sharing a statement a day after her death, her sister Maureen Nolan explained Linda didn't die of cancer. Instead, she contracted double pneumonia, which her immune system couldn't recover from as her body was struggling with cancer.
She wrote: "I would just like to say, to all the people out there who felt inspired by Linda... the big C didn't actually get her. She contracted double pneumonia over Christmas and New Year, and because of her immune system, it was one battle too much. So please keep hopeful and strong if you are suffering, she lasted nearly 20 years with one cancer or another, and so can you.".
Just weeks before her death, Linda was devastatingly struck down with a "mystery illness" as she continued to live with the incurable disease. She became so ill that she worried she was close to death and reflected on how it came to an end for her beloved sister Bernie, who died from breast cancer in July 2013.
