I talked to Linda and there was an element of 'I'm done' - Blackpool's Coleen Nolan on her sisters and cancer

Blackpool’s Coleen Nolan has shared touching details of chats she had with her sister Linda, before she passed away last February from pneumonia but had incurable brain cancer.

Linda had lived with cancer for several years, including breast cancer and liver cancer, and on Loose Women, Coleen told viewers that when she really sat down and spoke with Linda, she admitted there was an element of ‘I’m done’ when she was diagnosed for a second time.

Coleen, who rose to fame with her sisters as part of singing sensations The Nolans, recalled how Linda had remained positive, how she was still able to receive treatment but deep down, she knew enough was enough.

Talking with show anchor Kaye Adams and posting the interview on Instagram, she said: “I’ve spoken to all three of my sisters about cancer, over time, the first time with Bernie and obviously Anne, she has had cancer twice and she’s amazing because she is still here and it’s all gone with Anne.

“I feel sometimes Anne gets left out a bit, she’s survived but has actually she has gone through it for years.

“But I think with Bernie and Linda, I think because they came out and it was very public, it really helped them at the time.

“And the amount of love they got back for it and people saying ‘Oh you have given me the strength to go on’ and ‘I’m going to do this’ I think the second time, especially with Linda, it was harder.

“You’ve lost the hope you had first time and it’s come back a second time.

“Initially she was actually saying they can still treat it.

“But inside, when I really spoke to her she said ‘there’s an element of, I’m done.

“And then there’s the guilt you feel that you’ve let the people down, almost, that you’ve stopped them having hope because they had hope because of you and now you’ve got it again.

“She felt like she’d stopped anyone having hope of being ok.”