"I didn't know it was being filmed... and that conversation I was having was actually to my agent, it wasn't to my doctor," she spoke live on television for the first time since being diagnosed with cervical cancer last month.

"(The producers) wanted me to go out and tell everybody. I was like, 'I can't do that, I need my family and friends to know before I just randomly say it on television.'

"And it was really horrible, it was really, really hard because I had no one, at that time when you found out all you want is a cuddle or something, and I had nothing," the 27-year-old star, who now faces a hysterectomy because of the disease, was quoted as saying by Daily Mail.

Jade, who was at the centre of allegations of racist bullying against Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty during the British reality show, also said her doctors initially gave her all clear, and sent her away with just pain killers.

She told GMTV that her symptoms were initially dismissed by doctors. "They did a belly scan and everything was fine, even my blood, so they said to me it was either a bad period or stress."

"In the end I began to feel really frustrated, like they were insulting my intelligence, I thought they thought I was being a hypochondriac and lying about it.”

"I made a conscious effort to tell them that I was going away for a long period of time and they wouldn't be able to get in touch, and would that be OK. They said I was fine and I was fit and healthy," she said.