Deborah James’ mother Heather reveals she’s ‘dreading’ the second anniversary of the bowel cancer campaigner’s death because it brings back memories of all their ‘lasts’ together [Video]

Dame Deborah James‘ mother has revealed she is ‘dreading’ the second anniversary of the bowel cancer campaigner’s death. 

The mother-of-two passed away at the age of 40 in June 2022 following a five-year battle with bowel cancer, and used her diagnosis to raise awareness of the disease and set up the Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK, which has raised more than £12 million.

To celebrate their daughter’s legacy, Heather, 66, and her husband Alistair James, 68, reflected on her final weeks on today’s Loose Women.  

Heather opened up about how hard Deborah’s anniversaries are becoming, saying she is getting flashbacks to all the last moments they shared in the final seven weeks leading up to her passing.   

She said: ‘Anniversaries are hard, this one I was dreading. It would of been Friday next week that she would of died and the lead up to it, seven weeks lead up, from she …