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Kathy Griffin Shares Lung Cancer Diagnosis: "I've Never Smoked"
Kathy Griffin is focused connected her health.
The comedian shared a glimpse into her Easter plans connected societal media, posting a representation of herself astatine the hospital—wrapped successful a broad and wearing a achromatic disguise arsenic she sat successful a chair—waiting to undergo imaging.
"Happy Easter???" Kathy captioned the April 9 Instagram post. "Getting an MRI."
Although the 62-year-old didn't springiness immoderate penetration into the crushed for her scan, respective pals sent their enactment in the remark section.
Ross Matthews wrote, "Sending you love!," with a slew of reddish bosom emojis portion Sharon Stone—who had a fibroid tumor removed past year—commiserated connected the experience, noting, "Got excavation past week." Actor Michael Hitchcock chimed successful suggesting, "when the MRI gets truly large unreal you're successful a bangin' club. Sending love!"
Kathy's holiday drawback comes 2 years aft she opened up about her battle with signifier 1 lung cancer.
"In August, I had fractional of my near lung removed. I'm not adjacent kidding," she said connected Jimmy Kimmel Live! successful Nov. 2021. "Now, they, like, enactment the intubation conduit to driblet by my vocal cord. So present I'm, like, Minnie Mouse meets Marilyn Monroe, I'm not sure."
Kathy added that though she had ne'er smoked, the tumor was "in determination for 10 years." After the scan, the doc explained to her what the process to region the mass would beryllium like.
"So I spell in, and he's, like, describing however they instrumentality fractional your lung out, and helium goes, 'It's benignant of similar a balloon. So we bash it laparoscopically and we poke it,'" she recalled. "And past helium goes, 'And erstwhile we instrumentality it out, it benignant of looks similar a utilized condom.' The doctor. And past helium goes, 'You tin usage that.'"
And flash guardant to 2022, Kathy gave an update connected her recovery.
"My heath is beauteous good. And I'm crab free, which is great!" the Search Party star exclusively told E! News successful September. "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."
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