Julia Bradbury shares health update after breast cancer diagnosis

01.02.2022 - 14:29 / ok.co.uk

Julia Bradbury has opened up on how she's recovering amid her breast cancer battle.The 51 year old shared the heartbreaking news that she was diagnosed with cancer in September 2021 and just one month later underwent a mastectomy for it. Now, three months on, Julia has returned to ITV's This Morning for a brief segment, where she told viewers as well as hosts Alison Hammond, 46, and Rochelle Humes, 31, that her "healing is going well".

Wearing a denim shirt underneath a black jacket and a beige woolly coat, the TV personality stood in the middle of the This Morning forest as she provided an update. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.

You can sign up at the top of the page. "It's your first day back at work following your treatment for breast cancer, how are you feeling and how are you?" Alison asked.To which Julia replied: "Yes, well first of all I want to say thanks to the whole This Morning team for checking in with me regularly to check how I'm doing.

It is lovely to be back and you've all been sending me little messages saying, 'Are you ready? Are you ready?' "And today I was ready because it's a beautiful morning in the forest and I wanted to help give away these trees." Julia went on to share that her doctor gave her the go ahead to appear on telly as she said: "The doctor said, 'Yes, it's alright,' I'm recovering, I had a mastectomy a couple of months ago." Explaining how she's been coping since the operation, she added: "I've been doing lots of physio, lots of treatment, my healing is going very well thank you. "And I've taken this opportunity to kind of suck in the green therapy and I'm going to go for a little walk around the forest."