Samantha Who star Christina Applegate talked about her fight with breast cancer today on Good Morning America. The 36-year-old actress said, “Absolutely 100 percent clear and clean. It did not spread. They got everything out, so I’m definitely not going to die from breast cancer.”
Applegate, pictured above arriving at Good Morning America, revealed that she elected to have a double mastectomy three weeks ago even though her cancer was contained in one breast. Christina tested positive for the BRCA1 gene, which is linked to breast and ovarian cancer. This seemed like the best decision after watching her mother battle with the disease and then suffer from a recurrence years later. “I just wanted to kind of be rid of this whole thing for me,” she said. “This was the choice that I made, and it was a tough one.” She will have to undergo reconstructive surgery over the next eight months. Applegate described her emotional state by saying, “Sometimes, you know, I cry and sometimes I scream and I get really angry and I get really like, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that’s - it’s all part of healing, and anyone who’s going through it out there, it’s OK to cry. It’s OK to fall on the ground and just scream if you want to.”
This challenging experience inspired Christina to start a program to financially support woman at high risk for breast cancer and she’ll also appear in the TV special, Stand Up to Cancer, airing September 5th to raise money for cancer research. [Photo: Splash News Online]
