was relieved when a cancer scare gave her a reason to quit . The 50-year-old actress left the Latin and ballroom contest in week six last year citing personal and medical reasons and later accused professional partner of , 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: "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. Giovanni said, 'There's no point teaching you this because it's not going in.
You can't get it. We'll be lucky if we get through because you're useless'. "He refused to even look at me so I went to the toilet, came back and said, 'I'm going to go to the hospital now because I found two lumps in my breast this morning'.
" "Then he was great. He said, 'Well, let me know how it goes'." It was the catalyst I'd been sort of waiting for, which is terrible.
" "But that's what I was thinking, that it was a healthier option than being in that room. "I've championed breast cancer charities but there was a part of me that was like, 'OK, I have to deal with this now instead. Phew'.
" Amanda - who was later told the lumps were benign - claimed rehearsals with the 34-year-old dancer became unpleasant "fairly quickly". She said: "It descended into him calling me names, saying I was stupid and lazy, that I.