Industry's Marisa Abela: I thought my career was over when I first saw thyroid cancer scar By Jacinta Taylor For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:15, 6 October 2024 | Updated: 00:20, 6 October 2024 e-mail View comments Industry actress Marisa Abela has revealed in harrowing detail how seeing her scarred body for the first time after cancer surgery left her fearing her career was over. The 27-year-old star was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in November 2020 shortly after filming the first series of the TV drama in which she plays privileged billionaire Yasmin Kara-Hanani. Recalling the moment she first saw the scar across her throat, she said: ‘When I first went to the bathroom after surgery and I saw myself in the mirror, I thought, “That’s it, my career is over”.
‘[My neck] was stapled, bloody. It wasn’t pretty at all, and the scar is big.’ Industry actress Marisa Abela has revealed in harrowing detail how seeing her scarred body for the first time after cancer surgery Abela with her Industry co-stars at a special screening of its third series in King's Cross, London She also told of her fears that her future acting roles would be restricted to characters with the description ‘she had this big scar on her neck’ and how her diagnosis at the age of just 23 had changed her thoughts about her body.
‘[After] being diagnosed with cancer – even if it’s something like thyroid cancer, which isn’t necessarily life-threatening – there’s a distrust within yo.
