This Morning star Lynsey Crombie has admitted that she’s finding it ‘hard to love herself’ after her shock cancer diagnosis.
The TV personality, 45, – who appears on the ITV show as the Queen of Clean and has a huge Instagram following – has opened up about how a skin cancer diagnosis last year turned her world upside down.
She has told in a new interview how she ‘fell to the floor’ after doctors told her the bad news and that the diagnosis was a ‘huge wake up call’.
After being told by doctors it was nothing to worry about she sought a second opinion from a private mole clinic and was then given an ‘urgent referral’ – before two of her moles were removed.
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This Morning star Lynsey Crombie has admitted that she’s finding it ‘hard to love herself’ after her shock cancer diagnosis
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The star, 45, – who appears on the ITV show as the Queen of Clean and has a huge Instagram following – has opened up about how a skin cancer diagnosis last year turned her world upside down
Two weeks later when she was in America she got a call saying that she had invasive melanoma.
In terms of her mental health after the diagnosis she told how it was hard to ‘love herself’, saying that: ‘I’m just not right.’
She added: ‘It wasn’t the mole I was concerned about, it was the one that had been there for years – I would never have gone about that other one, I didn’t see it as a problem.’
For her treatment she had a wide local excision around the mole on her knee to ensure there were no other cancer cells in the area.
She now needs no further treatment but has regular skin checks with the NHS.
A month ago she enjoyed a trip to Gran Canaria and told how it was her ‘first time in the sun since surgery’.
Sharing a snap on the beach she penned: ‘Reflecting on a different kind of holiday for me this year, one filled with gratitude and caution after my battle with invasive Melanoma last year.
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It came after Lynsey noticed a change in a mole on her knee that sparked concern after detecting a change in how it looked
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A month ago she enjoyed a trip to Gran Canaria and told how it was her ‘first time in the sun since surgery’
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In terms of her mental health after the diagnosis she told how it was hard to ‘love herself’, saying that: ‘I’m just not right’
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For her treatment she had a wide local excision around the mole on her knee to ensure there were no other cancer cells in the area
‘During my trip to Greece, I noticed two new moles on my knee, prompting concern. Despite reassurances from doctors, my gut told me otherwise. And it turns out, my intuition was right.
‘This trip has marked my first time in the sun since surgery, and I was understandably anxious. I am taking every precaution, covering up, wearing a hat (even though I’m not typically a ‘hat person’), and religiously applying factor 50 sunscreen every hour. But I am still managing to have a fabulous time, thanks to careful planning and a touch of self-confidence boost from the fake stuff.
‘While the sun-kissed glow might not be as ‘real,’ it certainly brought me peace of mind, ensuring an even tan without the risk. Here’s to soaking up the sun safely and cherishing every moment of wellness.’
It comes after in 2021 she revealed how her home was ransacked by police looking to arrest her then husband on child sex offences – causing her to go into early labour with her twins.
The mother-of-three – who is now happily married to second husband Rob, with whom she has one son – was left a single mother, and her children were placed on the Child Protection Register as soon as she left hospital with them.
Lynsey admitted on This Morning she felt ‘judged’ as a parent, and was forced to attend several meetings with other women whose partners were also paedophiles – despite not knowing the full extent of her ex-husband’s crime until six months later.
‘They basically just ransacked my home and took loads of stuff and took him away and I had no idea’, she told This Morning on Wednesday.
‘I had been back to visit my parents for a few days and I thought ‘What’s gone on while I’ve been away?’, and a few days later, I went into early labour with the twins.’
Lynsey who was 25 at the time, had known her first husband, who she won’t name and was seven years older, for just over a year at the time. They’d met while living in Kingston, Surrey.
‘My mum used to call him catalogue man’, said Lyndsey. ‘He looked like he’d stepped out of a catalogue, business guy, with a really good job.
‘I was young, very influenced by him and I saw a great life ahead, but what I didn’t know was he wasn’t that person I thought he was. He was a wine and diner, he would take me overseas all the time, and I was living a very good lifestyle at a very young age, he had a beautiful home.’
She admitted that her ex-partner was exhibiting strange behaviour such as ‘pulling the wires out of his computer’, but that she didn’t notice them because she was ‘blinded by love’.
‘He did a few things that weren’t quite right and now I’m older and I look back and think, why did he pull the wires out of the computer when I would go into the room? Why did he disappear at night? Why did random people knock on my door and accuse him of doing stuff?
‘I just had no idea, I was blinded by the situation, the fancy wedding and blinded by love. I was very naive’.
After falling pregnant the couple re-located to be near her ex-partner’s new job and shortly after moving, Lindsey’s home was ransacked by police and her husband was arrested.
Due to the trauma of the arrest, Lindsey was sent into premature labour and gave birth in a special-care unit.
She explained: ‘The girls went on the Child Protection Register as soon as they were released from hospital, which was a hell of a label to carry around with me.
‘I felt like I was being judged as well and not a good parent for my children to be on this list, which was not a nice list to be on.
‘I had to go to numerous meetings with ladies who were connected to these types of people. I never got the true story, this happened in late May, until November of what he had done.’
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Lynsey enjoys regular appearances on ITV’s This Morning and has three books to her name
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Social media star Lynsey is pictured with her two teenage daughters
Lynsey – who first came to fame throwing hoarders’ junk into skips on Channel 4’s Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners – enjoys regular appearances on ITV’s This Morning and has two books to her name, as well as a third to be released later this month.
But the mum admitted that cleaning started as a ‘form of therapy’ when counselling and medication did ‘nothing’ to deal with her trauma.
‘It was a coping mechanism’, she said, ‘Bottles of bleach, I would pour them onto my surfaces and scrub. It was like I was scrubbing away the pain.
‘It was a way I felt I could deal with this I had counselling and medication and nothing helped I only felt happy when I was cleaning…for me it was like a form of therapy.’
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