Kylie’s ‘Neighbours’ Mom Faced Similar Breast Cancer Fight

Anne Charleston, who played Kylie Minogue’s mother Madge Ramsay in ‘Neighbours’, tells GMTV that the news of her breast cancer diagnosis was like “a stab to the heart.” Charleston said, “If it’s diagnosed early enough, it can be treated and I think it’s a good thing that she’s in Australia with her family. They are a very close family and you do need your family around you. When I heard, it was like a stab to the heart because it happened to me at that same age. I think she’ll come through it fine. She’s very healthy generally and I’m sure she will come through it, but it’s an emotional thing having something like this because you go into the operation not knowing quite what’s going to happen.”