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Sort Your Life Out's Dilly Carter has candidly discussed a challenging decision she had to make in a recent health update.

In 2023, the decluttering guru courageously revealed her diagnosis of stage one womb cancer following an operation to remove uterine fibroids.

Dilly has been transparent about her recovery journey, documenting hospital stays and treatments. She underwent a significant six-hour surgery, which successfully removed the cancerous tumour from her womb.

During her appearance on ITV's Lorraine on Monday (October 3), Dilly gave a frank account of the difficult decision to place her mum into a care home, confessing that she "couldn't cope".

The television personality's mother has been struggling with mental health issues since she was 11 years old, reports The Mirror. Speaking to host Lorraine Kelly, Dilly confessed: "Honestly it was the best decision I ever made. I was just too unwell to care for her and I couldn't take it all on.

"The thing with careers is you don't really realise how much you're carrying on your shoulders all the time, it's not just the physical doing because so many people care for their family and friends but it's the emotional toll it takes on you."

She added: "I've been doing that since I was 11, physically and emotionally carrying that weight of my mum being in and out of psychiatric units, being very unwell into my 20s and into my 30s."

Dilly was visibly emotional as she shared: "When I became unwell I thought 'I can't do this anymore' like they say when you're on a plane I have to sort of get my oxygen mask on first before you save others and I think that was so important for me.

"I was so unwell, I was so poorly and I think for me and my family we just couldn't do it anymore. But I had that horrible feeling where I thought 'I need to tell my mum, how am I going to do this'".

She remembered: "I recall when I went in and sat with her at the bottom of the garden. At the time I had feeding tubes hanging out of my arm, I was so unwell and I was 5 and a half stone.

"I said 'look mum I going to need you to go into respite for a couple of weeks, because I can't look after you anymore because it is too much'."

The television personality added: "She said 'I understand' she could see me, she could see I needed help so she went and actually within five days of being there I said 'are you happy' and she said 'I've never been happier' and it was transformational for me because it was a weight lifted off my shoulder."

Lorraine airs weekdays from 9am on ITV1 and ITVX