Amanda Abbington was relieved when a cancer scare gave her a reason to quit Strictly Come Dancing , she has shared in a new interview. The actress left the BBC One dance show in week five last year citing personal and medical reasons and later issued a formal complaint against professional partner Giovanni Pernice. The Sherlock star has previously made accusations about the teaching methods of Giovanni during their time working together on the dance programme.
It later emerged she'd made a formal complaint about Giovanni, who has since left the hit dance programme as he refuted any claims of wrongdoing following her claims of "unnecessary, abusive, cruel and mean" behaviour. READ MORE: BBC Strictly Come Dancing fans fume as 'stunning' performance 'ruined' by one thing The review into Amanda's complaints about her professional dance partner was launched earlier this year and last Monday (September 30) she was given an apology by the BBC after it confirmed it had "upheld some, but not all" But she's now revealed she was also dealing with a health issue at the same time after finding lumps in her breast. She told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: "By my final week, on the Thursday morning, I was in the shower and I found two lumps.
I'd got the all-clear after a mammogram a couple of months before. I went in for rehearsals to do the cha-cha-cha and just couldn't concentrate..
.." She added: "It was the catalyst I'd been sort of waiting for, which is terrible.
But that's what I was thin.
