Get the latest gossip

Julia Louis-Dreyfus Says Breast Cancer Diagnosis Put Priorities into 'Sharp Focus': I Made 'an Attitude Shift'

Julia Louis-Dreyfus — who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017 — opened up about how her health battle changed her perspective and made her shift her priorities.

And a lot of this work that we’re talking about today is sort of as a result of that,” she added, referring to her new movie Tuesday and podcast Wiser Than Me. She recalled the moment she got the call from her doctor and learned she had stage 2 breast cancer, the day after winning her sixth consecutive Emmy award in September 2017. Louis-Dreyfus announced she was cancer-free in October 2018 following a double mastectomy and six rounds of chemo.

Get the Android app