Abigail Louise Phillips (born 14 January 1994) is an English actress and singer. She is best known for playing Liberty Savage in Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks and for her debut single “Summer Sunshine”.
Abi – who is the daughter of Arlene Phillips – revealed she had previously gone to the doctors to get the lumps examined but was told there was nothing wrong, and she wanted to get a second opinion for “peace of mind”.
She continued: “I’d previously been sent away from the doctors after having found two lumps in my neck, they’d passed it off and said I was ‘young’ and it wouldn’t be anything and I was ‘probably getting over a cold’ or my body was ‘fighting something off.
“As much as that’s what I wanted to hear I wanted to get everything checked for my own peace of mind.” Hollyoaks actress Abi Phillips has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer at the age of 28.
The soap star, who played Liberty Savage from 2010 to 2013, announced the news on her Instagram on Monday (May 9) while uploading two photos, one of her in a hospital gown and one after her biopsy with a small bandage on her neck.