SNL’s Victoria Jackson ‘Forgot’ She Had Cancer Before Deadly Diagnosis
In a new interview with People, comedian Victoria Jackson shared the story of how she reacted when she found out her breast cancer had returned after nine years, and is now inoperable.
“I was like, ‘Oh, okay. Well, that makes sense.’ How can you catch every molecule?,’” she explained. “I’m not good in science or math, but I expected it could come back. I kind of forgot about it for nine years. I forgot I had cancer.”
Jackson, who was in the cast of Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1992, was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, and went through chemotherapy to treat it. She told People that she wasn’t fully certain if her cancer had gone into remission afterward, but she’s back to taking treatments again.