Dancing On Ice's Sally Dynevor speaks out on husband's help during cancer battle

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Coronation Street star, who is currently featuring in this year's series of Dancing On Ice, discovered she had breast cancer in 2009 but said she felt "very lucky" to have the support of her loved ones, even though it was one of the toughest points in her life.She revealed that Tim, a scriptwriter for rival soap Emmerdale, made her treatment feel like a "positive time".In a new interview, Sally praised her partner, who she has been married to for 27 years and shares three children with, including Bridgerton's Phoebe Dynevor.She said: "I was very lucky during that time of having cancer, because my husband is really strong."He would say, we're going to make this into a positive time."After chemo, we're going to go for walks, or we're going to watch this box set."We're going to enjoy the time that we have just relaxing and not worrying about anything."The actress, who has played Sally Webster in the long-running ITV soap since 1986, added: "I suppose it was the first time that I really took my foot off the pedal and gave myself time to do nothing."Which is actually much more important than doing something."We do need time to find ourselves and come to terms with things in a slow way.""We're going to enjoy the time that we have just relaxing and not worrying about anything," she told The Big Issue magazine.Sally also recalled how her daughter Harriet had called her "beautiful" as she was having her hair shaved amid chemotherapy."There's another memory," she said."I'd just found out I'd got breast cancer and Harriet was only little, five or six."She was looking at me while my hair was being shaved and she was telling me how beautiful I was and how much she loved me."And I just remember thinking, my God, this is a very special.