She was a last-minute eighth edition to ITV's The All New Monty: Ladies Night.
And on Tuesday's show Martina Navratilova shared a heart-to-heart with Coleen Nolan about her battle with breast cancer - and how she was more concerned at the time with the impact it had on her mother.
Becoming emotional, the tennis ace, 62, told Coleen: 'I found out it was DCIS which is not the worst kind. Sometimes I feel like I lucked out, I had the good cancer - if ever there was an oxymoron.
Raw: Martina Navratilova shared a heart-to-heart with Coleen Nolan about her battle with breast cancer on The All New Monty: Ladies Night
'For me the scariest parts were going back to the doctor and getting a mammogram to see if anything else is there.
'Growing up in a communist country, you have to keep things buttoned up. And then I left my family and I didn't see my parents for four years. And that's what I'll start crying about because I can't get that time back.
'You just think, get on with it. Because the worst part of my life was already behind me.
'This is only me, I can deal with it, but what hurt me was hurting my mum. Because cancer was a piece of cake.'
Pride: The ladies told Martina that her mother would be proud of her appearing on the show - which sees the celebs performing a striptease to encourage women to examine their breasts and have regular cervical smear checks
Tears: Becoming emotional, the tennis ace, 62, told Coleen - 'I found out it was DCIS which is not the worst kind. Sometimes I feel like I lucked out, I had the good cancer - if ever there was an oxymoron'
Speaking later in the show about her mother - who died 11 years ago - Martina said: 'She was the best person I know. She was so smart. Whenever there was a game show on, she knew every bloody answer
She added: 'I know what I'm doing on Centre Court. But I don't know what I'm doing here'
Speaking later in the show about her mother - who died 11 years ago - Martina said: 'She was the best person I know. She was so smart. Whenever there was a game show on, she knew
