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Kathy Griffin Shares Lung Cancer Diagnosis: "I've Never Smoked"
Kathy Griffin is uncovering her dependable again.
Nearly a twelvemonth aft undergoing lung surgery to dainty cancer, the 61-year-old shared an update connected her aesculapian journey with E! News.
"My heath is beauteous good. And I'm crab free, which is great!" the comedian said Sept. 21 astatine the Cool Comedy, Hot Cuisine: A tribute to Bob Saget event, benefitting the Scleroderma Research Foundation. "But I did prolong immoderate injuries from the surgery. So I'm moving connected my dependable to get it better, keeping my fingers crossed, but it utilized to beryllium adjacent worse than this. At slightest present I tin beryllium heard, it was similar a susurration for six months."
The former Kathy Griffin: My Life connected the D-List star revealed successful August 2021 that she was diagnosed with stage 1 lung cancer, undergoing country that period to region "half" of her near lung. That November, she shared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that pursuing the procedure, she was declared "cancer-free."
Following her wellness scare, the comedian has returned to acting, appearing successful respective episodes of the HBO Max drama bid Search Party earlier this year. She besides stars successful the upcoming Comedy Central movie Cursed Friends, which airs connected Oct. 8. However, Griffin inactive has hopes to revive to standup drama career, though arsenic she shared with E! News, she does person a fewer reservations.
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"I americium convinced cipher would bargain a ticket," she said. "Like, I consciousness similar radical say, 'Come back, travel back,' and the tickets spell connected merchantability and they're like, 'Sorry, I couldn't get a babysitter that night.' So I'm terrified to spell backmost connected the roadworthy and dying connected stage."
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