Amanda Peet has spoken openly about her cancer battle after revealing her diagnosis in March.
In an essay for The New Yorker, Peet shared that she learned she had stage I cancer that was “hormone-receptor-positive” and “HER2-negative” after undergoing a routine scan. According to the Mayo Clinic, this is the most common type of breast cancer.
“I was happier than I’d been pre-diagnosis, when I was just a regular person who didn’t have cancer,” Peet wrote. “But after about 10 minutes, I remembered that I still needed the MRI and regressed to baseline terror. [My doctor,] Dr. K., said that the radiologist would check my lymph nodes, as well as ‘the left side for any surprise findings’ and call with the results within a week. It was dawning on me that cancer diagnoses come in a slow drip.”
The MRI showed a second mass that was ultimately benign, which meant Peet was not advised to undergo a double mastectomy or chemotherapy. Instead, the actress underwent a lumpectomy and radiation, receiving a clear scan in January.
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How Amanda Peet Told Her Children About Her Cancer Diagnosis
In March, Amanda Peet opened up about the moment she was forced to tell her children about her cancer diagnosis. (Peet shares daughters Frances and Moll and son Henry with husband David Benioff.)
“They’ve been great. I definitely had to get myself together before including them,” Peet told E! News. “The hard part was realizing that nothing is certain and there was going to be no perfect time to tell them.”
Amanda Peet Recalls ‘Best Piece of Advice’ She’s Been Given Since Diagnosis
During a March appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, Amanda Peet was asked about the best advice she had received since her diagnosis.
“The best piece of advice, I would say, is ‘Enjoy it while we’re here,'” Peet replied.
Amanda Peet Says She’s ‘Feeling Great’ 1 Month After Sharing Diagnosis
At the PaleyFest panel for Apple TV+’s Your Friends & Neighbors in April, Amanda Peet exclusively told Us Weekly that writing her essay became part of her healing process post-diagnosis.
“I didn’t really have a strategy or a plan when I started writing,” Peet said. “It just seemed, like, maybe part of how I was coping with what was happening.”
She continued, “I’m doing great. The response [to the essay] was very, very surprising and moving. If I could make anyone feel slightly less alone, that brings me deep joy.”
Amanda Peet Says She Was ‘Extremely Lucky’ With Diagnosis
In an April episode of the “Smartless” podcast, Amanda Peet explained that she was “extremely lucky” to have been diagnosed with her specific type of cancer, adding that waiting for the diagnosis was “just insane making.”
“We didn’t want to tell the kids for a while until we knew whether I was going to do chemo and what the course of treatment was going to be. So I had wanted to keep it a secret because I wasn’t even telling my children,” Peet explained of her diagnosis.
This story was compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists.
