Amy Dowden opens up on touching documentary moment with Dianne Buswell
The pair have been close friends since they joined Strictly Come Dancing.
Amy Dowden is giving the public an intimate and raw insight into her cancer treatment journey in her new documentary, Strictly Amy: Cancer and Me.
In May 2023, the Strictly Come Dancing pro revealed she had been diagnosed with grade three breast cancer, but doctors were able to catch it early. In this documentary, Amy is her most raw self and in a moment shows her fellow dancer Dianne Buswell her mastectomy scar, after struggling for weeks prior to look at it.
Amy shares that she and Dianne have formed a close bond after they both joined Strictly Come Dancing at the same time. As the pair reunite following Amy's cancer treatment, the dancer shows her friend her mastectomy scar in a truly heart-warming moment.
Dianne asks: "How does your breast actually look?", as Amy admits she "didn't look at it for two weeks and had to do it with a nurse".
"As dancers, our appearance is a big thing for us," Dianne said. "It's just something that we're always aware of. Anything that does happen physically to our bodies, it does play a mental role."
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Amy goes to show Dianne and she replies: "It looks amazing! It's so perky, it actually looks so good. It looks great... Just looking at you, you look incredible and I can't wait for the moment we get to dance again. We're all rooting for you, everyone is."
In a new interview, Amy told press including RadioTimes.com she showed Dianne as she felt they understood each other more having been in the dancing world.
Amy explained: "Being in the public eye, and being dancers and wanting this perfect body, which I really don't look at wanting a perfect body at all anymore.
"My body has got me through so much. I'm surprised [and] I'm so proud of what it's got through. But I guess Dianne understood where I was coming from. Dianne got it. I mean, she's a dancer too. She knows the costumes we’ve got to wear, and we're so honest and open each other like that."
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Strictly Amy: Cancer and Me will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Monday 26th August 2024.
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