'Mum didn't look herself, she didn't feel herself, and she just sounded so bad.'
Ella Vaday on coping with judgement and cancer Nick Collier, better known by his drag queen alter ego Ella Vaday, had viewers in hysterics with his brilliant Nigella Lawson impersonation on season three of Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK. But just as his career was taking off, Nick got the devastating news his mother Donna, 59, had been diagnosed with breast cancer. The filming schedule meant he couldn’t be by her side, but Donna – his biggest fan – was adamant the show must go on.
‘It kind of got her through and she made so many friends through doing that as well. It was it was very stressful but luckily, my mum’s a massively positive person,’ he adds. While Donna’s cancer battle was ongoing Nick, felt ‘a massive amount of guilt couldn’t always be there’ to support her through treatment. ‘I’d be out there gigging on the road, having the best time of my life, you know, everyone’s shouting my name. But on the flip side she couldn’t come and watch it,’ Nick adds.
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