Lara Stone announced that was been diagnosed with breast cancer just a week before allegations about her ex-husband David Walliams emerged in the press.

The British comedian, who she was married to for five years, is facing claims he engaged in inappropriate behaviour with girls as young as 15 from as back as two decades ago.

The claims emerged from a joint investigation by The Guardian and ITV News, which was published on Tuesday, November 10, after he failed to obtain an injunction to prevent the reporting of allegations against him.

Just days ahead of the scandal coming to light, the Dutch supermodel revealed via an Instagram post on October 31 that she is currently undergoing breast cancer treatment.

Alongside a graphic which read, “Check your breasts, it could save your life,” the model added a personal anecdote: "Since it’s still officially Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I wanted to share that I have recently been diagnosed and am undergoing treatment for breast cancer.

“This has obviously been a huge shock, and I’m so grateful to have found it early. I don’t often share my personal life online, but if this post will make just one person check their breasts, or make that appointment they’ve been putting off, it’s worth sharing.

“Please don’t ignore changes to your body”, she urged her followers.

She did not share further details of the stage of her cancer or specifics of her treatment.

The model, who shares a son with Walliams, has not publicly commented on allegations made against her former husband.

The pair met in 2009 at Chelsea football match. The Dutch supermodel, who is 12 years younger than Walliams, said that the comedian was the one to make the first move.

Following a whirlwind romance, the couple announced their engagement in January 2010, and they were married just four months later in a star-studded event at Claridge’s Hotel.

They then welcomed their first and only child Alfred in 2013.

The couple split after five years of marriage in 2015. Walliams cited Stone’s “unreasonable behaviour” as the reason for their divorce but has not commented further on their split. They share joint custody of Alfred.

In 2022, she married David Grievson, founder of property design company Coburn.

Walliams, who denies all allegations, acknowledged in a statement that he sometimes “behaved thoughtlessly towards other people I had casual sexual relationships with".

He said: “I realise I did not always take people's feelings properly into account. That is something I regret. And whilst a power imbalance is inevitable when one party is famous, abusing that power is something else entirely and it is something that I never did.”