Robbie Williams' wife Ayda Field fights back tears as she shares mother's heartbreaking diagnosis

Ayda Field was left fighting back tears on Loose Women today as she opened up about her mother Gwen's heartbreaking cancer diagnosis and shared her mum's story

Ayda Field, the wife of pop icon Robbie Williams, was visibly moved as she opened up about her mother's cancer diagnosis during her appearance on Loose Women.

The TV star discussed how her mum Gwen is once again facing cervical cancer. Barely holding back tears, Ayda gave an emotional recount of her mother's ordeal and then shared her family's story with the audience. In her conversation on Loose Women, Ayda admitted: "This is a really tough thing for me to talk about."

She continued: "My mother - we don't talk about stages in our house - and I say all of this after having discussed it with my mum that I was going to potentially discuss what she was going through. My mother said, 'I so want you to tell this story, I just want to make sure it's positive. I am going to do my best and I am going to make this positive.'

"My mother unfortunately has had a return of her cervical cancer and she is also a breast cancer survivor. The cancer has come back; we got the news a couple of months ago and I've just been privately processing it."

Previously in 2020, Ayda revealed details about her mum's health struggles on Robbie's podcast, At Home With the Williamses, commenting at that time: "It had spread outside the cervix and was a very aggressive tumour."

"Alongside her Parkinson's and her lupus was this cancer battle, because the cancer was so big they decided that she immediately go into chemo and radiation daily and have surgery."

She added: "It was very scary as my mum with Parkinson's, lupus, and cancer at 70 years old is prime for some bad things happening. So she was going to hospital every day for these treatments and I was worried she was going to pick something up."

"So alongside her Parkinson's and her Lupus was this cancer battle and because the cancer was so big they decided that she needed to immediately go into chemo and radiation daily and have surgery," she said.

"When the pandemic hit it was very scary because my mum with Lupus and Parkinson's and cancer, at 70 years old is prime for some bad things happening so she was going to the hospital every day for these treatments."

*Loose Women airs weekdays at 12.30pm on ITV1 and ITVX.