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Rocker Linda Perry Reveals She Had a Double Mastectomy After Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Linda Perry reveals that she secretly battled breast cancer in 2021.

Perry, 59, was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy in 2021, she shared in a new interview with People. Perry said had the cancer not been caught when it was, she would have attributed her symptoms to stress because she was caring for her ill mother at the time. I remember calling Don [Hardy] and going, 'You're not going to believe this,'" she says of her conversation with the Linda Perry: Let It Die Here director.

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