Former Emmerdale actress Leah Bracknell, 54, gave her fans an update about her health on her website Something Beginning with C. In her new post titled Take Me Back to Normal, the actress told how she feels guilty when moaning about her cancer and admitted she is fed up. She wrote: “I am fed up of being fed up. And I’d like a break please. “Having a moan and a whinge does not come without a sizable chunk of guilt.
“I know there are people out there who are enduring much worse circumstances than I.
“I know that I have a great deal about which to be grateful. But that little part of me that is feeling sorry for myself just wants to be seen and heard.
“She wants to jump up and down shouting ‘It’s not fair’ ‘I want my life back’ “I want to feel normal again”.
Leah went on to reveal she recently had a trip to the A&E after enjoying herself on holiday with her husband Jez Hughes, 44.
She continued: “Life took a little turn off course.
“And rather than being allowed to return home, I was admitted immediately via A and E to a ward where I was treated for an infection, (I had been hacking away in France but thought that I’d shake it off no problem, just like the good old days) and slightly more seriously to prevent sepsis, for which I was borderline.”
Leah was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2016, with her husband setting up a Go Fund Me page to raise money for her treatment.
The donation page hit its £50,000 target to help Leah receive vital “cutting edge” treatment.
Leah discussed living with cancer and the support she received from fans on Lorraine Kelly’s self-titled ITV show in 2017.
She told the host she was “overwhelmed” by the support she received when speaking out about her diagnosis.
She said: “It was totally unexpected. It was like medicine you can’t bottle.
“That’s the medicine you want… I was like okay they want me to live, I want to live too.”
The actress then spoke of how she lives positively despite having the disease.
She continued: “It’s life… even when they told me the diagnosis I had which was literally no options… I’m still alive and I am not going to embrace anything else… full stop.
“I am alive until the point I am not.”
Emmerdale airs weekdays on ITV from 7am.