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Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon has revealed for the first time that she has battled with breast cancer.

The 42-year-old actress, who plays Miranda Hobbes in the hit TV show, was diagnosed 18 months ago, but until now has kept it out of the public eye.

In an interview with news show Nightline, she admitted: “I felt scared”.

Cynthia said she always thought she would get the disease because her mother had battled it when she was just 12.

Cynthia was given the news that a small tumor had been found after a mammogram. But she said: “I realized it had been found early so they could get right on with it.”

Brave and dedicated, Cynthia revealed she scheduled the surgery on a Sunday, so she would not miss even one performance of the Broadway play she was in at the time, adding: “That’s just the way I am,” Nixon admitted.

The lumpectomy was followed by six weeks of radiation treatment.She said her own crisis made her re-evaluate how Sex and the City used breast cancer for a storyline, insisting: “I think it was beautiful. Like, leave it to Samantha to make a party out of cancer!”

The actress spoke out about the life-changing event, and for the first time about her relationship with lesbian lover Christine Marinoni, who she admitted was hit hard by the cancer crisis.

Cynthia revealed: “My girlfriend was very scared.

“She was the one doing the eating. She was in a panic - she was just trying to calm herself down any way she could.”

Cynthia, also revealed that her children call them both the women ‘mum’. She said: “They love her, they call her mum.

“My son is very funny: sometimes he says mum and it’s obvious he means both of us - or either of us. He’s just ‘Mum’ and whoever answers is fine.”

The actress is now an official ambassador for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world’s largest breast cancer organization.

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