Denise Scott’s wild act on-set sparked bosses to ‘stop filming and call an ambulance’

Beloved comedian Denise Scott told The Project that she sparked fears on the set of Mother & Son for a bizarre reason.

Denise Scott made her TV comeback on Monday night’s episode of The Project after beating her fight against breast cancer.

The beloved screen star, 69, first revealed her heartbreaking battle with the disease in 2023 after six months of privately undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Then last year, she revealed she had finally been given the all clear from doctors after a total of 17 months of “non-stop” treatment.

During Monday’s episode of The Project, Scott spoke openly about her difficult cancer journey.

Denise Scott made her TV comeback on Monday night's episode of The Project. Picture: Channel 10

The comedian, who was undergoing treatment while filming the first series of Mother & Son, confessed that an on-set mishap almost caused producers to call her an ambulance over fears she was experiencing chemo complications.

“It was the worst time. I was on a really brutal chemotherapy. Every week. And so, yeah, it wasn’t the best of times,” she told host Sarah Harris, who asked if filming the show while on chemo had been a welcome distraction.

“I’d started chemo in Melbourne and then moved to Sydney to start filming Mother & Son and continued my treatment there. And the first day of shooting everyone is nervous, and I’m anxious because chemo also really ups the psychological side of things. So I rock up first time, first time I’ve been in a sitcom, I’m the lead and I’m so scared. It’s a really hot day, and this young runner has driven me to set. And I’m so nervous that I guzzle down a bottle of water and then I think ‘What have I just drunk?’. It wasn’t water. It was hand sanitiser that had liquefied in the Sydney heat!”

Scott regularly kept fans updated with her cancer journey while she was undergoing treatment. Picture: Facebook.

Scott said that her panicked reaction to realising what she’d just chucked down her throat sparked chaos among producers on-set who feared something terrible was wrong.

“And they think ‘Right! Filming stop! Get the ambulance for Denise it’s cancer related!’ And I’m trying to speak while [gestures at her mouth]. Anyway, that stuff is like 95% alcohol, I was p*ssed out of my mind for the whole of the first day shoot. If you look at the first scenes of the first series of Mother & Son, I’m completely blitzed.”

Meanwhile, on Monday night Scott also made her welcome return to Have You Been Paying Attention where she was briefly quizzed about her health struggles and how it felt to be back working.

“Well, I’m not dead. Isn’t that great news?” she told her co-stars before revealing that she was grateful to have been able to film the second series of Mother & Son while not undergoing chemo again.

Originally published as Denise Scott’s wild act on-set sparked bosses to ‘stop filming and call an ambulance’