Julie Walters kept her cancer secret and now says it was gift that changed her life

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Julie Walters kept her cancer secret as she didn’t want to worry her family – and told how her illness had been a “gift”.The Educating Rita actress, 70, has had the all-clear after being ­diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer in 2018.But she said the disease, which led to two tumours being removed from her colon, had made her reevaluate her life, including cutting back on work and living at a more sedate pace.She said: “It’s changed me because it’s changed the way I live my life.

I’m the same but different. I’m not rushing about all the time, getting up at 5am and coming home at midnight.“A year-and-a-half has now passed.