“I’m home. I was supposed to come home yesterday, but they decided to keep me in overnight. Minor complications,” she told followers in an Instagram video. Trying to inject some humour, she added: “I looked very pale, the nurses were calling me pale and passionate. I don’t know about passionate, but I am very pale.” But the emotion soon surfaced. “I’m feeling okay. I had a bit of a cry as you do, but I am okay. Emotions are all over the place,” she said, before praising staff at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital as “truly amazing”.

Holding up a bag over her shoulder, Beverley joked: “And wait for this, who needs Louis Vuitton? Josh, one of the nurses, his nan makes these to keep the drain bottle in.”

Before the operation, Beverley had also spoken candidly from her hospital bed as she prepared for what she described as “the big day”.

“I’m ready, I’m strong, I feel fine,” she said, explaining she had been chatting with other women undergoing treatment.

She added that hearing from others facing cancer had helped ease her fears, admitting many shared the same worries.

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Giving a clearer picture of her recovery, Beverley revealed the first night after surgery was extremely painful.

“The first night, Friday, which was the day of the operation, I must say I was in great pain Friday night and I didn’t sleep at all,” she said. “I slept for 12 hours last night, which is unheard of for me,” she added, explaining she no longer needed morphine because it made her feel sick.

“I’m not in pain today at all. Rather than being in pain, I’m more sore and I can cope with that,” she said. “I’m black and blue and purple, which is not attractive, but I’m doing really well.”

Beverley first revealed her diagnosis earlier this year during an appearance on RTÉ’s The Late Late Show, explaining she received the news “literally 15 to 20 minutes before” filming her first scene for Irish soap Fair City.

Doctors have confirmed the cancer was caught at a very early stage, and Beverley is set to undergo radiotherapy next.

“I have emotional moments,” she said, “but honestly I’m doing well — mentally and physically.”