Broke down

Olivia Munn: “Cancer doesn’t care who you are”

Olivia Munn and her husband John Mulaney

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US actress Olivia Munn (43) recently made it public that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer - an aggressive form. She also had to undergo a bilateral mastectomy and numerous treatments. Now the actress has spoken about her experiences.

Over the past eleven months, Olivia Munn has been through hell: on March 10, 2024, actress Olivia Munn and US stand-up comedian John Mulaney (41) posed on the red carpet of the Oscars and the subsequent Vanity Fair party.

Just a few days later, the "X-Men" star shared some terrible news with her almost three million Instagram followers. Munn "has been diagnosed with breast cancer" - an aggressive form. She had to have both breasts removed. In an interview with the US magazine "People", Munn described how she experienced the mastectomy and revealed: "I saw myself for the first time and was in shock."

"Cancer doesn't care who you are"
"I wasn't someone who feared death," says the actress. "But having a little baby at home made everything even scarier," the actress added. According to "People", she should have been working on a new movie in Germany two weeks after the diagnosis. "You learn that cancer doesn't care who you are. It doesn't care if you have a baby or if you don't have time," Munn describes. "It comes at you and you have no choice but to face it".

You can watch the interview here:

Olivia Munn still wants to give her body time
Within 30 days, she had undergone several procedures, including a double mastectomy. Munn's diagnosis came as a huge shock, as her annual mammogram just three months earlier had shown no abnormal findings.

"I went around thinking I didn't have breast cancer," she said. "I did all the tests I knew." In the end, her gynecologist used various factors to calculate that Munn had a high probability of developing breast cancer. The cancer was then discovered during a subsequent MRI and ultrasound scan. After her mastectomy, Munn wanted to give her body time before deciding on breast reconstruction.

After the procedure, "I just collapsed"
The physical change, along with the procedure and the diagnosis, were too much. "When I got home, I took my clothes off and looked in the mirror again, and I just broke down."

Nevertheless, Olivia Munn is grateful and glad that the cancer was "detected in time" - "so that I still had options". She concluded by thanking the doctors who treated her, the hospital staff and her husband, who not only took wonderful care of her, but also of their little son Malcolm, who was born in 2021.