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David Tennant has opened up about the time his wife Georgia Tennant was diagnosed with cervical cancer, explaining it “could’ve been too late” if they had caught it a few months later.
The 52-year-old Doctor Who star explained how he had a “weird experience” as he had been told the bad news after it had already “been dealt with”.
Reflecting on how there had been “relief at the same time as the horror”, the BBC actor spoke to The Daily Telegraph about his family’s ordeal.
Looking at his wife, he said: “At least we were spared the prospect of living with, ‘You’ve got this, and can it be caught?’
“But I still have these flashbacks of ‘What if you hadn’t…?’ I don’t think I acknowledged at the time how serious it could have been.”
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After Georgia, 38, received abnormal smear test results, she had a cervical excision to remove the tissue causing concern, but it was only afterwards that results showed those cells to be cancerous.
Speaking about receiving the terrifying health news, Georgia remembered: “I obviously knew there was going to be something, so David got the news first: that it was bad but that they’d got rid of it.
“And then he made me get on the phone so that I could hear it from the doctor myself, because he knew that was something I needed to do.”
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David admitted “both of us were just numb”, revealing: “It was such a Sliding Doors moment. Even a few months later it could have been too late.”
Georgia then added: “Which is why now I’ll tell everyone with a cervix: go and get yourself checked.”
David and Georgia met on the set of Doctor Who, where the actress played the Doctor’s biological daughter after an adult clone was produced from his DNA in the 2008 episode called The Doctor’s Daughter.
The pair have been married since 2011 and share three daughters and two sons, including Georgia’s firstborn son Ty, whom David adopted.
David and Georgia are both passionate about the National Health System, with the Scottish actor previously speaking in a video for the organisation YourNHSNeedsYou.
“The National Health Service saved my life when I was 10 and my appendix burst,” David said in the 2021 video.
“It saved my daughter’s life when she was just a few weeks old and they brought her back from a very scary place.
“Their screening service detected my wife’s cervical cancer, and she got treatment and now she’s fine.”
“The NHS is probably the thing that makes me proudest to be British,” he concluded.
Doctor Who returns this Saturday at 6.30pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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