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The Crown actress Claire Foy has overcome much to become a star of the small screen (and, with some of her upcoming film roles, the big screen as well).

 

The mum-of-one recently opened up to The Sun about her struggle at the age of 17 when it was discovered she had a tumour in her eye.

 

"I’m quite lucky to have a face," the 33-year-old told The Sun of the harrowing incident, "I was a bit like Cyclops and it was all a bit scary."

 

"I was on steroids for about a year and a half afterwards that makes you put on a lot of weight and have really bad skin."

 

Her medical issues drove Claire to follow the career path that would eventually lead to her award-winning role as Queen Elizabeth in The Crown.

 

 

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"It was horrible and debilitating, but it made me realise that I needed to grab the life I wanted," she said.

 

“If that hadn’t happened, I don’t know if I would have been brave enough to throw my cards on the table and say I wanted to study drama."

 

That wasn't the only illness that would greatly impact Claire's life.

 

In 2014 she married The History Boys actor Stephen Campbell Moore, who was diagnosed with a benign brain tumour on his pituitary gland in late 2016.

 

The couple had welcomed their daughter in March of 2015, and the year after Claire began her starring role in The Crown. With Stephen's diagnosis, it was a difficult time for the family.

 

 

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"You realise you’re not the most important person in that process, and everybody who loves you goes through far worse. My daughter didn’t know what was going on at all. But my family did, and I could see it in them," Stephen said of the ordeal.

 

"There are certain things that you make sure you've done before you go into surgery," he continued.

 

"You write a letter. But it's all very much on the off chance that something did go wrong because every part of you is saying that nothing will. Waking up and being told the operation had gone well was understandably a huge relief."

 

Thankfully, he seems to be doing much better.

 

We wish Claire and her family the best of luck.

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