David Tennant's wife, Georgia, has shared her emotional journey with cervical cancer, revealing that she even started planning her own funeral.
The mum-of-five, who is married to the Doctor Who star, credits a simple smear test for saving her life as it caught her cancer early before it could spread.
Georgia, 38, was diagnosed with the disease five years before NHS England pledged to eliminate it by 2040.
Despite catching the disease early, Georgia admitted that she began planning her own funeral after seeing abnormalities in her test. In a blog post from 2018, she urged women to book their smear tests to avoid similar situations.
Sharing a photo of herself in her hospital gown, she wrote: "Here I am on 22nd February 2018. Although 'tis indeed a fetching look, if you'd like to learn more about why you should never miss a smear test please read the story attached in bio. #cervicalscreeningawarenessweek."
She added: "Before I'd made it up upstairs to tell my husband, I'd started planning my funeral. Having kids takes you to that place pretty quickly I find."
Georgia, a mum-of-five, shared her shocking experience: "The lovely doctor called yesterday. Results are back. It was cancer. They've got it all but it was cancer. Survived cancer without ever realising I had it.
"As you can tell I'm still processing this, it's quite a thing to get your head round. My betraying little cervix had begun an attempt to kill me off and by a stroke of baffling luck I had stopped it, beat it, cut it out before it had a chance to make it out of the starting gates (that's dog racing speak for 'hadn't spread beyond the layers they'd already removed')."
She continued: "Survived cancer without ever realising I had it. As you can tell I'm still processing this, it's quite a thing to get your head round. The swirling storm cloud of 'what ifs?'. I'm currently half terrified child, half superhero."
Finally, Georgia urged others to take the smear test, writing: "If the first part of the story didn't hit home, I hope this bit does. From borderline changes to cancer to cancer free in mere months. It really could have been a different story. One I will be forever grateful I didn't have to tell."
Georgia and David have been happily married since 2011. They are proud parents to Ty, 21, Olive, 12, Wilfred, 10, Doris, eight, and Birdie, three.
Ty, who is Georgia's son from a previous relationship when she was just 17, has been adopted by David and is now following in his parents' footsteps as an actor.
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