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Privacy NoticeStrictly Come Dancing’s Amy Dowden has opened up about being supported by her BBC One family amid her cancer journey, revealing that the illness taught her ‘who her true friends are’. The Welsh dancer is sharing the last year of harrowing diagnoses and chemotherapy treatments in her new BBC documentary Strictly Amy: Cancer and Me. “When you’re told you’ve got cancer, in a click of the fingers, your life changes,” Amy said. “You have everything stripped away from you. I had my dancing taken away from me, what I love most in the world.” In the documentary, Amy’s Strictly co-star Dianne Buswell makes a cameo as she supports Amy during her cancer treatment. On what it was like having her friends and family to lean on, Amy said: “Do you know what, you really learn who your true friends and family are during this time and I’m so lucky to have the best.
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“Just knowing when they need to give me a hug or make me laugh, make me smile, it just helps with being ill. They just know you inside out and having that support and that network around you, I’m forever grateful. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to pay them back for it.” Amy added that it was Strictly that inspired her to keep pushing through her treatment. “When I’m dancing, I forget all my worries, stresses and pain in life,” she admitted. “Strictly is something I worked all my life for and I wasn’t going to let cancer stop me from going back. I need that goal and purpose because I’m not sure what I would have done otherwise.” Earlier this year, Amy opened up about how she was “so grateful” for her Strictly colleagues, who stepped in to help when her cancer treatment made her unable to film scenes of her series Dare to Dance. Speaking to OK! in an exclusive interview, she said of Dianne Buswell, Graziano Di Prima, Oti Mabuse and Carlos Gu: “I was so grateful that they came on board and did everything to help.
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“I know them and their personalities and their teaching styles. I knew Carlos would be perfect for Kirsty [who grew up dancing but stopped when she lost her sight], and Graz would be perfect for Rich [a firefighter who loves street dance].” She added, “It was a lovely surprise for the contributors – they got to learn from them, pick up tips from them. It was great!” Strictly Amy: Cancer and Me airs Monday 26 August at 8pm on BBC One.Story SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnStrictly Come DancingAmy Dowden
