United Kingdom, April 11 -- Lucy Liu received an inaccurate cancer diagnosis and underwent unnecessary surgery.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 star was petrified after she found a lump in her breast and a doctor "sort of felt the lump and said it was cancer", and Lucy went without "getting screened" or having tests, such as "an ultrasound or a mammogram", in the 1990s.

The 57-year-old star added to People: "I didn't really think too much about it. But it was scary, because at that time, there was less information that was available, because we didn't have internet."

She resisted getting a "second opinion" on the lump because she thought the doctor had correctly diagnosed her.

The Charlie's Angels actress admitted: "Even though my friend had ...