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Cheryl Cole to fans: 'You've melted my heart by starting a campaign to prevent malaria'

Songstress Cheryl Cole has revealed that she was overwhelmed to discover her fans have been raising money for malaria after she voiced a video about the disease for Comic Relief.

The 'Promise This' beauty has experienced malaria first hand after contracting it several years ago, so it's an issue very close to her heart, and writing on Twitter over the weekend she expressed her gratitude to her fans for getting behind the cause:

"Wow!' What have I just come across.. I can not believe that some of you have been starting a campaign to help fight malaria and in such a short period of time have raised a considerable amount.. My heart is melting knowing that I have such amazing, considerate and caring people on here. You make me so proud."

Cole added: "I have found, and still find it incredibly hard to talk about publicly as my experience is still very fresh and raw in my mind. But to feel a response like that from Paul's story is amazing. Thank you. You're all such angels."

 

 

 

 

Watch the Comic Relief segment, in which Cole details a boy named Paul's story, here: