Former Hollyoaks actress Ali Bastian rushed to hospital after breast cancer diagnosis

Former Hollyoaks star Ali Bastian was rushed to hospital this weekend due to her cancer treatment.

The 42-year-old actress, who is best known for playing Becca Dean in the Channel 4 soap from 2001 to 2007, was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer by doctors in June.

She shared an update to her Instagram Story on Monday, posing for a selfie and telling her followers that she was getting some much-needed rest.

Ali dressed warmly in a knitted hat and a padded coat and took a walk through the countryside.

She captioned the post: ‘Thank you so much to everyone at Cork University Hospital A&E for looking after me this weekend.

‘Now back home, get some fresh air and rest.’

The actress, 42, was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer in June and told her followers she was getting some much-needed rest after ending up in the emergency room.

Ali recently opens up about losing her hair in a candid interview.

The actress, who is currently undergoing chemotherapy, is undergoing a mastectomy and radiotherapy and shared the emotional moment she shaved off her hair.

Now Ali has admitted she feared she would lose ‘her identity’ and her hair after shaving her head.

She told me The sun is fantastic magazine: ‘At home I walk around with a bald head all the time. But I was afraid that going bald from chemo meant I was “becoming” a cancer patient, and that was all anyone would see.

“I thought it would be like losing my identity.”

But Ali revealed that the first time she took off her wig it only felt like a big deal for ‘a split second’.

She added, “Then it felt good, and then it just felt normal. I’m hot and my bald head needs some air!’

Ali also admitted she struggled to come to terms with the fact that the breasts feeding her daughters were endangering her life

The actress, who is currently undergoing chemotherapy, is undergoing a mastectomy and radiotherapy and recently shared the emotional moment she shaved off her hair

She found it difficult at first to ‘give her breasts some love’: ‘I worked very hard to feel compassion for my breasts and therefore for myself, but sometimes that was difficult.’

The update comes just after Ali took to Instagram to post a heartbreaking video showing the moment she cut her hair last month.

On The Greatest Showman’s ballad ‘This is Me’, Ali explained that it was ‘a small price to pay for the chance to get well again’ before admitting that she will be ‘forever changed’.

With the help of her husband David O’Mahony, who cut Ali’s hair, the actress could be seen smiling bravely at the camera before shaving it off.

She then revealed her new look and in one candid shot, she cuddled up with her youngest daughter, Isla, four.

“When you have breast cancer, every month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month,” she wrote in the caption.

On The Greatest Showman’s ballad ‘This is Me’, Ali explained that it was ‘a small price to pay for the chance to get well again’, before admitting that she will be ‘forever changed’.

She wrote: ‘Hair loss is just one aspect of all this that we all wish wasn’t a side effect but I know it’s not forever and it’s a small price to pay for the chance to get better again ‘

She continued, “Hair loss is just one aspect of all of this that we all wish wasn’t a side effect, but I know it’s not forever and it’s a small price to pay for the chance to get better again .’

‘The deeper I get into my treatment, the more I see this as an outward expression of how stripped and raw it feels now.

‘Sharing this feels like part of my journey… not ‘back’ to myself… for I will be forever changed… but forward into my future… to show up as I am now. In today’s truth.

She added, “For all the warrior women out there going through this. You’re not alone. #breastcancerawareness’