Loose Women’s Brenda Edwards on heartbreaking lesson she learnt when orphaned age 4
ok.co.ukLoose Women's Brenda Edwards has opened up to OK! in an emotional interview about her past and the trauma she's been through - including cancer and devastating loss.
Brenda reflected on her past experience of breast cancer as she seeks to raise awareness of secondary cancers and she explained the trauma of her past helped her to deal with the diagnosis back in 2016 after she found a lump.
Brenda's parents tragically passed away in a car accident when she was four years old and this horrific event has taught her to become "resilient" and she said "cancer knocked on the wrong door." “I’ve had a lot of tragedy in my life and you kind of learn to be resilient,” Brenda told us. “Because both of my parents died when I was so young, so I was determined not to let my children be orphaned.
I always said that I wanted to get past the age that my parents were, because they were very young — 27 and 25 — so it just wasn’t an option for me.
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