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Sarah Paulson in awe of her old friend amanda peet sums her up recent cancer battle.
“My best friend Amanda Peet … wrote the most profound, gorgeous essay about losing a parent to a breast cancer diagnosis,” Paulson, 51, wrote via the website Instagram Saturday, March 21st. “@newyorkermag released it today and I’m screaming with joy from the rooftops. I hope you all take the time to read it.”
She continued, “If you run around or anything, I’ll record the audio and you can listen as I try to do this article justice. My friend is a @newyorkermag essayist. How outrageous is that? Bird, I love you.”
Paulson then inspired some of her other famous friends to read Pitt’s story.
Amanda Peet has been diagnosed with breast cancer. “For years, people have told me that my breasts are ‘dense’ and ‘busy,’ which was not a compliment but a warning that they needed extra monitoring,” Pitt wrote in the New Yorker article published on Saturday, March 21. She revealed that she was diagnosed with the disease “last fall.” “I used to (…)
“Go and study now!!” Naomi Watts wrote in the comment section, and at the same time Rose Byrne Revealing she had “read (the article) this morning” and found it “so extraordinary”.
Ali WentworthFor her part, she added: “This is a beautifully written article. So familiar. Give me a big hug!”
Pitt, 54, revealed in her post that she Diagnosed with stage I breast cancer “Last fall,” when her parents were in hospice care.
“For years, people have told me that my breasts are ‘dense’ and ‘busy’ – which was not a compliment but a warning that they needed extra monitoring,” your friends and neighbors the star wrote. “I see my breast surgeon every six months for a checkup. The Friday before Labor Day, I had what I thought was a routine scan.”
Pitt’s doctor then told her she “didn’t like the way it looked on the ultrasound” and ordered the actress to undergo a biopsy. Two tumors, one of which is benign, Visible on one breast.
Many celebrities have spoken out about their personal battles with breast cancer over the years. Julia Louis-Dreyfus revealed her breast cancer diagnosis via Instagram in September 2017. Nearly a year later, she successfully defeated the disease and returned to work on “Veep.” “It sounds a little cliche, but then there’s something (…)
While Pitt waited to find out what kind of cancer she had, her parents were sick in bed.
“Our parents were long divorced, in hospice, and they were on different coasts,” Pitt recalled to the outlet, referring to her older sister. “We had our mother’s body in June, but our father’s body just a week ago, so we didn’t expect him to go first. I flew to New York. I didn’t make it before my father took his last breath, but I saw his body before it was taken from his apartment.”
Pitt returned home to Los Angeles, where she learned her cancer was “hormone receptor positive” and “HER2 negative.” She had her first “clear scan” in January, shortly before her mother’s death.
