BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Amy Dowden says 'I can't be angry any more' in emotional cancer update

Amy Dowden has said she 'can't be angry any more' as she reflected on her cancer journey more than a year after her initial breast cancer diagnosis.

The Strictly Come Dancing star underwent a mastectomy and chemotherapy after being diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2023. She also contracted life-threatening sepsis while undergoing treatment as she faced frightening setbacks before ringing the end-of-treatment bell and being told there is "no evidence of disease" following tests.

Amy has now told how cancer has changed her forever, and added: "I know my own self-worth now." Reflecting on her cancer diagnosis and treatment, she told Prima magazine: “I’ve come through the other side, and I can’t be angry any more.

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"I can’t change what’s happened, I can only move on. I have the rest of my life ahead of me and I can’t give it any more time than it has already taken."

Amy is to release a memoir called Dancing In The Rain and has also recently been the subject of an hour-long BBC documentary, Strictly Amy: Cancer And Me, which follows her diagnosis and road to recovery.

Speaking about her writing process for the book, the 34-year-old said: “Some memories were particularly painful. The moment when I was in hospital, so poorly with sepsis – it always upsets me when I go back to that.

"I was so lucky that I pulled through. My chemotherapy journey was still very raw, so that was tough, and I wasn’t the energetic Amy I once was, so there were times when writing the book where I’d be like, ‘OK, that’s enough for today.’"

She added: “Cancer has changed me forever. I’ll never take anyone or anything for granted, and I know my