He's only just said a final farewell to his wife, but already Wendy Richard's grieving husband John Burns has bravely come forward to talk about his late wife and her battle with cancer. Speaking to Phil and Fern on This Morning earlier today, John explained how his "strong" Wendy coped during her final months. "She never got upset or felt sorry for herself," he explained. John was speaking ahead of a planned documentary, Wendy Richard: To Tell You The Truth, which will be shown tonight on BBC1 at 8pm, and documents the actress' fight against cancer and her initial reaction against trying chemotherapy when she was first diagnosed with the disease back in 1996. "For Wendy it was the fear factor," explained John. "She was frightened of losing her hair and her looks. I hope this documentary dispels the fear. It's a lot less stressful than what you imagine it to be." Wendy eventually agreed to undergo a course of chemo when her cancer returned, and John says she felt very positive about it. On the documentary, Wendy herself is seen telling the camera, " One thing you must not do is give up, you must remain positive. I want to show people that chemotherapy is not a death sentence. It is medicine and it saves peoples lives." John went on to tell Phil and Fern that actress Natalie Cassidy had moved in temporarily to offer her support, and that James Alexandrou - who played Wendy's on-screen son Martin Fowler in EastEnders - is always at the house. " I will watch the documentary tonight with a glass of champagne in her honour," finished John. "That was the only thing she drank."
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