Linda Nolan says Christmas was a 'complete wipe out' and she didn't eat for days

Coleen Nolan provides update on her sister Linda

Linda Nolan reflected on the festive season and revealed that she was struck down with a terrible illness over Christmas.

The 65-year-old is currently living with incurable cancer, a disease which has sadly plagued her life.

In 2005, the singer was diagnosed with breast cancer and went into remission the following year.

In 2017, she revealed she had been diagnosed with a secondary cancer in her hip, which spread to her liver in 2020 and three years later, the cancer had spread to her brain.

After revealing that the treatments has stopped working, Linda has kept fans updated with her health and personal life through a coloumn in The Mirror.

Linda Nolan on Christmas with her family (Image: Instagram)

The hitmaker opened up about her difficult Christmas after she didn't eat for 11 days due to a mysterious illness.

Dishing on her first meal of the new year, Linda wrote: "Chicken curry with pineapple, no mushrooms. I’d never have imagined that would be my first bite of 2025 – but there it is.

"Denise and Tom were ordering a Chinese on Sunday and suddenly that’s what I fancied. Pineapple in a curry. That was the foil container to finally tempt me out of my fast. My very own Chinese New Year."

She revealed: "I hadn’t eaten for 11 days – what a Christmas! A complete wipe out. Everyone’s been so worried. The girls have been bringing me energy drinks and that’s all I’ve been able to get down."

Linda Nolan opened up about her Christmas (Image: Getty)

As for the illness, Linda shared: "The doctors say it’s been a bad case of flu. I became so weak I’d walk a few steps and struggle to catch my breath.

"My legs were even more wobbly than usual and of course although I try not to, I immediately thought of how Bernie was at the end. You think, Oh my God, is this it?"

Speaking on her older sister, she recalled: "On New Year’s Eve Denise was so worried she got me checked out at the hospital and they gave me steroids on top of antibiotics.

"They sent me back home to rest and she was then reassured enough to go to Coleen’s New Year’s party as my friend Sue and her husband Graham came round to stay. I was asleep by 10.10pm – but that was pretty good going!"