WORCESTER — Less than six months after her parents were found dead inside their Tatnuck home, Worcester born and raised actress Alicia Witt has opened up ...
Addressing her health scare, Witt stated, “These last six months have been the absolute strangest I could ever have imagined. Robert was 87, Diane 75. After finishing a 14-city album and book release tour at the end of October, Witt said, she returned to her home in Nashville, Tennessee, to have a biopsy done on a lump on her breast that she detected several months earlier.
Alicia Witt portrayed Paula on The Walking Dead series in season 6. She was a member of Negan's (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) Saviors.
She and a handful of others escaped the attack and captured Carol (Melissa McBride) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan). Paule didn’t know who she was coming up against with these two powerhouse women, and in the end, she loses out and is attacked by a walker. She will continue immunotherapies until the end of this year. She was a member of Negan’s (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) Saviors and met our survivors during the attack at the satellite post.
Hallmark Channel actress Alicia Witt has announced on Instagram that she has been battling breast cancer.
my beloved, brilliant, collaborative, communicative doctor,@habibdoss at @tnoncology, was there to celebrate with us as i rang the bell!" "just a little over 2 months ago, i had my last round of chemical therapy prior to my mastectomy. The actress said at the time that she was close to her parents, but described them as "fiercely stubborn," explaining they were "not penniless" but often refused the help of others, even when they had no heat in their house.
Witt's parents died in December after freezing to death in their Massachusetts home.
Beginning the rest of my life of finding them on the breeze, in a song, in a dream." But while her parents insisted on total privacy, Witt said that privacy's been "stripped away." "For me, this was such a needed part of my healing - particularly given the horribly public tragedy that had happened in our family just as i was beginning my treatments," she continued. Knowing as soon as I heard the detective’s voice on the other line that they were gone. She also posted a selfie as well as photos in which she removed the protective head and chest coverings she wore while receiving treatments. Alicia Witt is opening up about her private battle with cancer.
The actress and Worcester native was diagnosed with HER2-positive breast cancer last fall. Read more at Boston.com.
Additionally, she shared her gratitude for Penguin Cold Cap Therapy, a scalp cooling process that minimizes hair loss and that she said allowed her to maintain some privacy while she was going through treatments, especially since so many eyes were on her following the loss of her parents. Witt added that she was grateful to the people around her who supported her through treatments and respected her wish to keep the diagnosis private. After returning to her home in Nashville in the fall following a 14 city book and album release tour, she received a biopsy on a lump in her breast that she had been trying to schedule for months.
Actress Alicia Witt reveals heat was shut off to parents' home before their deaths in emotional post (NCD). By Natalie Dreier, Cox Media Group National ...
They were found after the actor hadn’t heard from them for several days and had asked a relative to check on them. Witt is still unsure if she’s “completely healed” from the breast cancer treatments, which included a mastectomy. Witt, 46, shared a post on social media from when she finished her last treatment, when she was awarded a certificate of completion and was able to ring the ceremonial gong.
'Just a little over 2 months ago, I had my last round of chemical therapy prior to my mastectomy,' actor wrote.
“I ask for some privacy at this time to grieve and to wrap my head around this turn of events, and this surreal loss.” “I reached out to a cousin who lives close to my parents to check on them. Their death was confirmed by Witt in a statement at the time.
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“When she was diagnosed, she watched him a lot. The 46 year old wanted to keep her diagnosis private until treatments were over, and wore a cold cap in an effort to keep her hair. Luckily, it was caught early. “The depth of the mole was less than a millimeter, so if she had waited until it got to a millimeter, her survival from that would have been significantly less,” Dr. Philip Bernard, a doctor who specializes in family medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, said. There was a lot of laughter because of that," Sadie’s mom, Misty Dutton, told “TODAY”. I loved them so,” Witt said, according to People.