Linda Nolan has said she ‘was suicidal’ after the death of her husband Brian Hudson.
Linda, 62, lost Brian to skin cancer in 2007 when he was 60, just one year after she was diagnosed with breast cancer for the first time.
The former singer – whose cancer has now spread to her liver – revealed she was ‘assisted by a mental health crisis team’ as her depression hit an all time low.
![Sad: Linda Nolan, 62, has said she 'was suicidal' after the death of her husband Brian Hudson in 2007](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/04/18/15/41908136-9484293-image-a-72_1618755944935.jpg)
Sad: Linda Nolan, 62, has said she ‘was suicidal’ after the death of her husband Brian Hudson in 2007
She told The Mirror: ‘I was suicidal. A psychiatrist came to see me, with these two big burly men who were nurses. Later, I realised if it hadn’t gone well, they’d have carted me off.’
Linda and Brian were married for 26 years and met two years before tying the knot in 1979, when Brian was The Nolans’ tour manager.
Linda – who has incurable secondary cancer which has spread from her hip to her liver – sat down for an interview with the paper along with her sister Anne Nolan, who completed treatment for breast cancer in November.
Anne, 70, has now been given the all-clear.
![Throwback: Linda lost Brian to skin cancer in 2007, just one year after she was diagnosed with breast cancer for the first time (pictured in 1984)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/04/18/15/41908530-9484293-image-m-116_1618757391266.jpg)
Throwback: Linda lost Brian to skin cancer in 2007, just one year after she was diagnosed with breast cancer for the first time (pictured in 1984)
On Wednesday, Anne credited her sister Linda for getting her through chemotherapy.
Anne and Linda underwent chemotherapy during the Covid pandemic, where restrictions prevented them from being accompanied by other members of the family for support.
In an extract from their new book Stronger Together, shared by The Mirror, Anne credits Linda for helping her through the therapy, which left her with traumatic side-effects.
![Battle: Linda has incurable secondary cancer which has spread from her hip to her liver, while Anne Nolan, 70, completed treatment for breast cancer in November (pictured on Friday)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/04/17/01/41857340-9480887-Honest_In_the_candid_chat_with_Jess_Boulton_Anne_said_Eventually-a-175_1618621017715.jpg)
Battle: Linda has incurable secondary cancer which has spread from her hip to her liver, while Anne Nolan, 70, completed treatment for breast cancer in November (pictured on Friday)
‘When [other sister] Maureen called to say Linda and I could have our chemotherapy treatment together, I cried with relief. We’ve shared every emotion – the highs and the lows – and we are stronger together because of it,’ Anne writes.
‘Two decades earlier when I had my chemo the first time, I could go out and do things. But because of the lockdowns and restrictions, I was having to shield. It’s been like living in a nightmare really. It was horrendous.
‘Having [Linda] with me helped a lot. She brought magazines in and we’d look at them together and natter. She was two metres from me, but we could still hear each other speak, and it was nice having a loved one nearby.
‘Linda was the one who labelled us the Chemo Sisters and I love that moniker.’
Anne goes on: ‘She just made life much easier. Linda had similar side-effects, and we would talk our symptoms through, as well as our coping mechanisms, and it made me feel better knowing I wasn’t alone.’
Chemo patients ring a bell in hospital on cancer wards to mark the end of their treatment. The sisters began chemotherapy at Blackpool’s Victoria Hospital last July.
Of this, Anne said: ‘When it came time to ring the bell, I was thrilled. It was fantastic feeling that I had finished chemo but I really rang the bell hard for Linda and was doing it for her rather than for me.’
![Fear: Linda and Anne Nolan (L-R) have admitted that they constantly live in fear of cancer as they discussed their battle with the disease](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/04/17/01/41857312-9480887-_You_do_live_with_it_for_a_few_years_Linda_L_and_Anne_Nolan_R_ad-a-174_1618621009467.jpg)
Fear: Linda and Anne Nolan (L-R) have admitted that they constantly live in fear of cancer as they discussed their battle with the disease
Linda and Anne received news of their shock diagnoses within days of each other, shortly after the sisters returned from filming a series of The Nolans Go Cruising in March.
After the sisters received their heartbreaking diagnoses, Maureen moved in with Anne and Linda relocated to her sister Denise’s Blackpool home.
Anne’s diagnosis came 20 years after she was first diagnosed with the disease in 2000.
Back in December, the singer said her cancer has ‘disappeared’ after undergoing a course of chemotherapy.
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She said: ‘My cancer has disappeared basically. I’m still having treatment to go forward but it’s more or less gone, yeah. It’s amazing.’
The siblings tragically lost their other sister Bernie in July 2013, aged 52, after a three-year battle with cancer. She was first diagnosed with the disease in 2010.
![Family: The Nolan Sisters are pictured in 1981 [back left to right Maureen, Anne and the late Bernie, front left to right Linda and Denise]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/05/08/21/41738090-9484293-Family_The_Nolan_Sisters_are_pictured_in_1981_back_left_to_right-a-75_1620504000504.jpg)
Family: The Nolan Sisters are pictured in 1981 [back left to right Maureen, Anne and the late Bernie, front left to right Linda and Denise]
Source: Daily Mail