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Alicia Wittis opening up about her private battle with cancer two months after completing chemotherapy.
On Wednesday, the 46-year-old actress shared videos of the moment she struck a gong in celebration of the end of her treatments as well as a photo of her holding her official certificate. She also posted a selfie and images in which she removed her head and chest coverings.
“Just a little over 2 months ago, i had my last round of chemical therapy prior to my mastectomy,” Wittwrotealongside the set of images and videos.
“Although we didn’t yet know for absolute certain until after the mastectomy that the disease was completely healed from my left breast, this marked the end of my carboplatin/taxotere, + herceptin/perjeta (the latter two are immunotherapies which will continue, per protocol for HER2+, through the end of this year),” Witt continued.
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“While keeping hair was obviously the last of my concerns on a larger level, i did deeply wish to keep my diagnosis private until it was 100% healed, god willing,” she added.
The star said that being able to keep the news private served as a “much needed part of my healing” as she grievedthe loss of her parents, Robert and Diane Witt, who were found dead in their Worcester, Massachusetts, home last December, around the same time Witt was “beginning” her treatments.
One month after their deaths, sheopened upabout the tragedy for the first timeon FacebookandInstagram, sharing several photos of her parents.
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“It’s been a month since I got scared, not having heard back from them, and called to have them checked on,” she wrote in part. “Waiting, phone in hand, praying fervently that the next call would be from them, angry I’d gotten someone else involved. Knowing as soon as I heard the detective’s voice on the other line that they were gone. Knowing I would never hear their voices again. Beginning the rest of my life of finding them on the breeze, in a song, in a dream.”
The formerOrange Is the New Blackactress revealed she was able to “quietly travel” to Worcester to attend a “beautiful service and burial, to mourn and to celebrate them in total privacy.”
Concluding her post, the actress briefly recalled her final conversation with her parents.
“Our last words to each other were ‘I love you,’ " she said. “That part was simple; never in doubt. They loved me so. I loved them so.”
source: people.com
