Having entertained us on screen and stage for more than 40 years, there’s no denying that Dame Julie Walters is a national treasure. The 70-year-old recently made the shocking revelation that she’d been battling stage three cancer – but, after chemotherapy treatment, Julie has been given the all-clear.
Like many people who go through something as life-changing as cancer, Mamma Mia! star Julie has come out the other side with very different priorities and has even suggested that her most recent film, The Secret Garden, could be her last.
‘I’m not saying I’ll never act again,’ she said. ‘But I certainly don’t think I can go back to [working] six days a week, five in the morning till seven o’clock at night.’
THINKING POSITIVELY
Julie is undoubtedly a glass-half-full kind of woman, and she even managed to find a positive aspect to her diagnosis. Confessing that it ‘completely changed’ her perspective of work, Julie explained, ‘The person before the operation is different to this person.’
This story is from the March 16, 2020 edition of WOMAN - UK.
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