Emotional Coleen Nolan issues heartbreaking update on Linda's terminal cancer battle

Loose Women star Coleen Nolan has revealed that her sister, Linda Nolan, chooses to remain in the dark about "doesn't want to know how long she has left" as she bravely fights breast cancer, which has now spread to her brain, bones, and liver.

The former star of The Nolans felt compelled to share her family's ordeal following Chris Hoy's announcement that his cancer is terminal. Having already experienced the loss of a family member - Bernie Nolan - to breast cancer in 2013, Coleen can empathise with the pain the Hoy family is currently enduring.

Discussing Chris' shocking diagnosis on Tuesday's (October 22) episode of Loose Women, the ex-singer expressed to her fellow panellists that she "understood" the emotions the cyclist and his family might be grappling with at this moment.

It was then that she spoke about her sister Linda, who is presently fighting the disease daily. Providing an update on her condition, she told viewers: "Linda doesn't want to know how long she's got because it's like counting down the days for how long she'd got left."

"This way, she's living every day like it might be her last," a heartbroken Coleen shared, reports the Mirror.

Linda recently addressed her cancer battle herself, as she appeared on Good Morning Britain to reveal another family member had been diagnosed with the disease.

She said: "We have had a rough time with it, and my stepson Lloyd has just been diagnosed and it’s like ‘go away, leave us alone.'"

She added: "I know I’ve got cancer, I know I’ve got to have treatment, but I don’t need to be dwelling on the fact that, ‘Oh, I’ve got that symptom that might be happening’.

"So I do try and not surround our lives with cancer, it seems like we do, but it’s surrounding us for sure. But we’re very philosophical about things.”