Linda Nolan has picked out her coffin and funeral songs after learning her cancer has spread to her brain.
Linda Nolan has started planning her funeral
The 64-year-old star was first diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in 2005 before being told she was tumour-free a year later but revealed last month that the hip cancer she had been diagnosed with in 2017 had spread to her brain.
Linda told the Mirror: "Brian [Linda's husband] organised his funeral and it was amazing.
"Bernie [Linda's sister] arranged hers. It’s easier for people left behind. I’ve gone into it a little bit. A Neil Sedaka song, Our Last Song Together. And I know the funeral people I’m going to use.
"Brian’s coffin was like a flight case, with 'This way up', 'Fragile' on it.
"Our auntie had a beautiful coffin with pictures of us around it.
"Then Maureen said, 'Look at this coffin, it was made for you, it’s pink glitter'."
When asked if she had chosen the pink coffin, she confirmed: "Absolutely. I am the blingy Nolan."
While Linda is trying to remain hopeful, she admitted she fears that death is coming for her.
She said: "I think it’s a one-way trip now.
"I am positive, but I have my moments when I slide down the wall in a heap.
“What happens? Is it dark, are you on your own? I’m frightened of the unknown and being on my own, I have always been with people.
"I’m frightened to cry in case I don’t stop sometimes.”
And, Linda admitted it is particularly difficult as her sister Bernie died 10 years ago after her own cancer spread to her brain.
She said: "Bernie had cancer in her brain when she died 10 years ago this July, aged 52.
“They keep telling me not to compare my illness with Bernie’s, everyone is different. I remember with Bernie, she phoned me and said ‘It’s gone to my brain, ‘I’m f*****’. At the time there was only radiotherapy, and then it didn’t work. But for me there is a new drug, and hope.”
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