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Stephen Colbert Addresses Backlash Over Kate Middleton Jokes Made Before Her Cancer Announcement: ‘I Do Not Make Light of Somebody Else’s Tragedy’


Stephen Colbert joked that Kate Middleton had disappeared because of her husband's cheating. Then Middleton announced she has cancer.

Stephen Colbert appeared remorseful during the March 25 episode of “The Late Show” while addressing Kate Middleton ‘s recent announcement that she was diagnosed with cancer and is set to undergo preemptive chemotherapy. The late night host addressed backlash he received for joking about Middleton’s whereabouts earlier in the month, a few weeks before the Princess of Wales confirmed her diagnosis to the world. In her video post, Middleton said that while her condition was originally thought to be non-cancerous, cancer was found in her system following abdominal surgery and she is now in the “early stages” of preventative chemotherapy.

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