Beverley Callard Breaks Down After Cancer Surgery

revealed she 'cried like a baby' after her dressings were removed for the first time on Wednesday, after undergoing breast surgery. 

Street actress, 68,  earlier this month, after being diagnosed just after she'd relocated to Dublin to start her new job on Irish soap Fair City.

In an update on X, Beverley said she refused to let her devoted husband of 15 years Jon McEwan come into the appointment with her, despite him urging her: 'Please don't shut me out'. 

She said: 'I had to do that by myself. I got there. I was really nervous and I sat there in the waiting room of the breast clinic. 

'I just looked around at the women in there. It went from all walks of life from a teenage to a little old lady. I just thought to myself, "we are so brave. This is amazing". Cancer touches everybody in some way.

'I just thought I can do this.'

Beverley said she was called into her appointment and had the dressing under her arm removed first, which revealed quite a large hemotoma. 

A hemotoma is a collection of clotted or partially clotted blood outside of blood vessels, often causing swelling, pain, and discoloration. 

Beverley said the consultant doesn't want to operate on it unless she has to, but will have to go to hospital next week to have surgery on it. 

She continued: 'As she came to change the dressing, I was feeling really strong and all ready for it, thinking about these incredible women.

'She took the dressing off and I looked down and saw myself for the first time and I just thought: "I can't do this". ' 

The actress said she told the nurse she couldn't look at herself in the mirror, despite being gently encouraged. 

'I went downstairs and out of the hospital. Jon was there waiting for me. I got in the car and cried my heart out like a baby. I wasn't strong at all then. I'd lost the whole lot. 

'I'm sure we all go through that. I did come home and I did look at myself and I did show Jon. I did get through it in the end. If anybody else is going through that part of it now, god love you. You can do this.'  

Fans took to the comment section to tell Beverley: 'You are amazing Beverley. Your openness and genuine honesty about how you are feeling and dealing with this is inspiring and will help so many others. I can only imagine how you felt leading up to having the dressings removed. You did it and you are talking about it';

'Honestly Beverley, I have so much admiration for you and what you’re doing. Not only fighting your own battle but helping so many other people that aren’t strong at all. There will be lots of scared people and your vid diaries will be a godsend for them. I'm in awe of your strength';