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Alex Kingston Reveals 2024 Uterine Cancer, Now in Recovery on Strictly Come Dancing

Her first interview urges women to seek medical advice for unexplained symptoms.

Overview

  • She says she haemorrhaged on stage during a Chichester Festival Theatre run, prompting tests and a diagnosis.
  • Doctors found disease in her fallopian tubes and confirmed it had not spread to her ovaries.
  • Treatment included a hysterectomy followed by radiotherapy, completed toward the end of last year.
  • Kingston delayed investigations until finishing the six-week production before pursuing further checks.
  • The 62-year-old is partnered with Johannes Radebe on Series 23 and says she now feels stronger "like Superwoman".