HGTV host Hilary Farr reveals she could have DIED in secret breast cancer battle after doctor first

HILARY Farr said she "could have died" from a frightening breast cancer battle that she kept secret while filming her HGTV show Love It or List It.

The Canadian-born TV star, who co-hosts her home renovation show with David Visentin, is now opening up about a nightmare scenario that had her "terrified," and was made worse by a misdiagnosis.

Hilary, 70, is a warm presence on HGTV, handling the "Love It" side of her series since 2008.

She is set to star in her own solo series, Tough Love with Hilary Farr, in December.

But off-camera, Hilary was secretly fighting a battle with breast cancer that had some shocking turns.

In 2012, she had a routine mammogram and doctors discovered a lump. She immediately underwent a lumpectomy to have it removed, and it was confirmed that the tumor was precancerous, not malignant.

"I felt so much relief," she told People in December. "I moved on."

But that procedure was only the beginning of her awful ordeal she hid from fans.

'I COULD HAVE BEEN DEAD'

In 2014, Hilary was filming in Raleigh, North Carolina when a mammogram revealed that she had invasive breast cancer and it had spread to the surrounding tissue.

Hilary underwent a second lumpectomy and was told she was 'fine' again.

"I was signed off by the medical oncologist saying, 'You're done. You're fine. Off you go,'" Hilary told People.

But two months later, Hilary learned she was actually supposed to get radiation treatment - which is common in destroying any remaining cancer cells.

"I was terrified, because I knew I had a very small window," she told People on the incorrect handling of her treatment post-lumpectomy.

She continued, on her anger, "I felt absolute fury that someone could be so flippantly wrong.

"I could have been dead."

Hilary did not name the facility and doctor involved, but she told People she filed a complaint and that the oncologist retired the next year.

A THIRD LUMP

In March 2015, Hilary revealed that she began a 28-day radiation treatment.

Unfortunately, seven months later, doctors found another lump.

Hilary underwent another lumpectomy - her third - and the tumor was again considered precancerous. Now, she is in remission.

"Fear of breast cancer stops a lot of women from getting checked," she told People. "But as terrifying as it is, you face it."

HGTV host Hilary Farr reveals she could have DIED in secret breast cancer battle after doctor first

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