JESSIE J has contacted Davina McCall to offer advice on breast cancer after her own struggles with the disease.
Singer Jessie, 37, said she was determined to let the former Big Brother host know there was a way forward despite never having met her.
And she said she would continue to talk publicly on the issue as doing so has helped save lives.
Jessie, who has a two-year-old son, Sky, with Danish former basketball star Chanan Colman, 41, said: “I’ve never spoken to [Davina] before, but I reached out and said, ‘This is what’s helped me, maybe it can help you’.”
Asked what she advised Davina, Jessie said: “The same thing I say to anyone who’s pregnant, had a baby, had a miscarriage or been told they’ve got cancer — ‘this is your thing’.”
The Price Tag singer urged her to “create the bubble that you need to survive” and said, for her, that included her mum, Rose, partner Chanan and Sky.
Jessie, also known for hits Do It Like A Dude, Domino and Bang Bang, was diagnosed in March.
On being told, she dreaded that her life may be over. She said: “That was my instant fear — I’m gonna die and he’s (Sky) not gonna have a mum. That was the thing that broke my heart.”
She said her management team urged her to cancel everything but she refused to stop working and delayed surgery to do a gig.
Jessie added: “What is this narrative that because you’re going through something personal or difficult that you park what you’re doing?”
She had a single mastectomy afterwards and returned to the stage in September.
Recently, she revealed her cancer was all gone but realises it may return. She said: “There’s a chance it could come back but until then we’re living life.”
Mum-of-three Davina, meanwhile, revealed last month she had surgery for breast cancer in October this year.
Davina, 58, who is married to celebrity hairdresser Michael Douglas, said she was “incredibly lucky” to discover it early.
She said: “I am so relieved to have had it removed and to know that it hasn’t spread.”
Jessie has vowed to continue sharing her experience. She told Women’s Health magazine: “I hear all the time from people who say that a friend checked her breasts after seeing me talking about it.
“They found a lump, and it’s cancer, but they’ve caught it early. I’ve got goosebumps. So I’ll keep talking about how important it is.”
