Colin Firth’s ex-wife Livia has revealed she is recovering from breast cancer surgery.
The 54-year-old filmmaker and eco-campaigner, who divorced the Bridget Jones star in 2019, says the early diagnosis of her condition likely saved her life.
To keep her Instagram followers updated, she shared a bunch of selfies she took during her recovery.
The caption read: ‘I thought about this post for a long time and decided to do it because prevention saved me.
‘A few weeks ago my doctor (a wonderful woman named Margherita) made an early diagnosis thanks to an annual mammogram. After further investigation it turned out to be a carcinoma in situ.’
Colin Firth’s ex-wife Livia has revealed she is recovering from breast cancer surgery
The 54-year-old filmmaker and eco campaigner, who divorced the Bridget Jones star in 2019, says an early diagnosis of her condition likely saved her life
She continued: ‘The beginning of a cancer that would have become very bad in a few months, but which I removed immediately and is now gone.
‘Thank you to the amazing @ieoistitutoeuropeodioncologia and the whole team there, you were so incredible.
“I am SO glad this didn’t go any further, SO grateful that I have the privilege of access to good medical care, SO aware that there are millions of people who don’t and I don’t take that for granted.”
Livia and actor Colin were married for 22 years before splitting in 2019.
Between 2015 and 2016 it became known that Livia had an affair with a childhood friend, Marco Branaccia.
Colin first left home in 2015 when the couple split, but they later got back together and bought a £1.6million three-bedroom luxury apartment nearby.
The couple met in the 1996 BBC drama Nostromo and married a year later in Tuscany, Italy.
They have sons aged 21 and 19 and Colin also has a son, actor Will, 32, with his ex-partner Meg Tilly, his co-star in the film Valmont.
She gave her Instagram followers an update by sharing a series of selfies from her recovery
The caption read: ‘I’ve been thinking a lot about this post and decided to do it because prevention saved me’
In November 2019, Colin announced that he had split from his wife Livia, but said they remained “united in their love for their children”, almost two years after it emerged that Livia had had an affair with her childhood friend.
In December 2023, Ny Breaking reported that Livia is dating 46-year-old Scottish climate activist Callum Grieve, whom she calls her ‘Master Chef’.
The duo have already set the world straight during a pro-Palestine protest, holding a poster with the slogan ‘Imagine Peace’.
Hopefully Callum is at least a little less aggressive than Livia’s ex, her childhood friend Marco Brancaccia, who reportedly stalked her after the two ended their affair in 2016.
In December 2023, Ny Breaking reported that Livia is dating Scottish climate activist Callum Grieve, 46, who she calls her ‘Master Chef’