ER alum Alex Kingston is opening up for the first time about being diagnosed with womb cancer last year.

The British actress, best known for playing Dr. Elizabeth Corday in the long-running medical drama and River Song in Doctor Who, shared her health scare in a wide-ranging interview with the U.K.’s The Independent newspaper published on Friday, October 10.

Kingston, 62, told the outlet that she had experienced bloating and aching pains for some years, but only got checked out in 2024 after noticing blood in her urine.

“I had assumed that the way I was feeling was old age, and I just sort of accepted it. I thought, ‘OK, this is what it’s like to be in my 60s,’” the actress said. “But a lot of how I was feeling was to do with my illness.”

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