Nicki Chapman reveals she can't talk about her brain tumour ordeal without crying and keeps

tired of dealing with annoying flies fruit flies and gats in your home the Zeo flying insect trap is your ultimate solution don't wait check out the link in the video description now to get your Zeo flying insect trap on Amazon and enjoy a bug free home today Nikki Chapman has revealed that she can't talk about her brain tumor ordeal without crying the presenter 57 has told in a poignant new interview that she locks memories of her health woes in a mental filing cabinet in order to deal with her feelings the former pop Idol judge was diagnosed with a non-malignant brain tumor in 2019 the tumor grew to the size of a small golf ball and she underwent surgery to remove part of it then in March 2022 she revealed that it had magically disappeared and told how she broke down when receiving the news she has now told the times of her ordeal it makes me cry I have put my own tumor in a filing cabinet you do this with a lot of things in life it will always be there but I don't need to keep opening it I won't let it Define me Nikki added I have had an amazing life and once the bombshell of the tumor dropped I thought I don't want to give this life up but if this is it well how lucky have I been and that sounds so glossy but I was born with the glass half full I found a strength to deal with it it was either take me now or let me live in 2022 and iy revealed publicly for the first time that she was given the shock but welcome news that the growth which she named Bert vanished 4 months prior she said on the white wine Question Time Podcast back in October I was having my yearly scan with my fantastic consultant who he knows that I adore him I tell him regularly in front of my husband how much I adore him and the NHS that looked after me and continued to look after me so well and he rang me and I was standing in a field because now we do phone appointments we don't do it face to face so he rang me with my latest scans and I was standing in a field and the escape to the country crew were moved away she continued I knew I was getting the call so they moved away and they gave me some privacy and I'm looking at all these pigs the amazing consultant rang me and said the tumor Nikki has gone for the moment it's disappeared I was sobbing and he was like Nikki Nikki I'm like no no no I said do we know why he said no these things happen I get a bit teary just thinking about it it and they don't know why and obviously I've still got to be monitored because these things have habits of changing so we take the good when we can always look for the win in every situation so Bert for the moment has gone and in the nicest of ways I hope the B asterisk asterisk asterisk asterisk D never comes back Nikki also reflected on first receiving Her diagnosis with her husband telling her she seemed High Nikki explained that was her relief at being told she could survive and and she was even willing to accept losing the sight of one eye in return if necessary but still redid her will the day before her operation explaining why part of the tumor had to remain as a dark cloud hanging over her she said they had to leave a Slither of him in because of where it was it was too dangerous to take out for whatever reason at the moment it's gone there's no Trace just the scar tissue and so the NHS will keep monitoring me and I will happily to every appointment that they ask me to go to but yeah life in absolutely and I wouldn't want anybody to go through anything like that so many people sadly are and do and I know I am fortunate she continued and fortunately it was benign but even to live with it wasn't great what will I look like how will I be I did my will the day before I went in for my operation for my husband the first thing I said was right were going to redo the will and he was so brilliant I told very few people because it is life-changing it is the biggest thing it's amazing what you will accept in life you do find strength that you didn't know you had we knew it was big they said you've got a large tumor they thought I'd had a stroke but it's taking each day and not knowing if you're going to live or not Nikki who is married to music executive Dave Shackleton added we came out in Shacks like are you sure you're okay you seem quite high and I was like Shaq he's told me I'm going to live unless some something goes wrong on that operating theater which can happen I'm going to live I'll take be partially cited or whatever after my operation everything went in my favor and 6 weeks to the de