United Kingdom, Feb. 5 -- Lady Penny Lancaster-Stewart has revealed she ended up on medication to cope with the emotional pain she felt over her husband Sir Rod Stewart's cancer diagnosis.

Rod was told he had prostate cancer in 2017 and the singer asked his wife Penny to keep his diagnosis secret until he knew what treatment was required and how serious it was.

Penny, 54, upheld her husband's wish, but the former model admits not having an outlet for her own stress and worry over his illness led her to seek medical help.

It was in October 2017, that Penny revealed publicly that she had been a victim of sexual abuse during a conversation about the #MeToo movement on daytime TV show Loose Women, and Penny believes that experience came to...