Olivia Munn’s ‘Terrifying’ Breast Cancer Diagnosis After Baby Joy: 4 Surgeries in 10 Months, and Medically Induced Menopause (Exclusive)
Diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, the actress opens up about her yearlong ordeal, her double mastectomy and how her partner John Mulaney and their 2-year-old son give her strength: "It's not just me I'm fighting for."
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00:00 For the first time in my life, I'm not thinking about the past,
00:05 I'm not thinking about the future, I'm just thinking about today.
00:08 And I think that's always been my goal.
00:12 It would have been nice to get there without cancer, but I'm here,
00:17 and I'm really happy that I can just be here today, right now.
00:27 Talking about this publicly has healed me a lot.
00:30 It is hard to keep something like this private as much as you want to be private about it.
00:37 There's some anxiety over it coming out before you're ready for it to come out,
00:45 and the response has been truly amazing and has really healed me a lot.
00:56 And knowing how many women have made calls to their doctors and taken these tests and
01:02 trying to get in front of it has just really filled me with so much joy and happiness.
01:13 And made me feel like, "Okay, I went through this, but it's gonna hopefully help a lot of women."
01:24 And that gives me so much happiness.
01:29 It's all I want is for more women to be able to advocate for themselves.
01:35 And if there's anybody who might be in my same situation, if they find out that they
01:42 end up having cancer they didn't think they did, well, that's all I'm hoping for.
01:46 I don't want to spend any more days not smiling and laughing.
01:52 I don't want to spend any more days not being happy with my baby.
01:56 I want him to see me happy and healthy and strong.
02:00 There are, of course, sad days, and there are times where, you know, I grew my hair out because
02:08 I wanted to be able to cover up some of my scars.
02:12 So sometimes I look in the mirror and I think about, like,
02:14 "Oh, my hair is so long now, and it's because of this."
02:19 And sometimes it makes me a little sad that I still want to hide certain aspects.
02:24 But then I remind myself that those are just battle wounds, and I can show them what I want,
02:35 and I can hide them when I want.
02:37 And even those little things where I don't beat myself up for anything I'm feeling on
02:43 any given day.
02:43 I just let myself feel it, and there's a really nice peace that comes with that.
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