During a recent emotional episode of “The Drew Barrymore Show,” host Drew Barrymore, 50, revealed she’d experienced a significant health scare after receiving a “bad mammogram.”
Barrymore shared the tense details of her experience while interviewing comedian and breast cancer survivor Tig Notaro, 54, on the Nov. 3rd episode.
“This is the thing I’ve wanted to risk talking about on this show because I recently had a scare,” Barrymore told Notaro and audiences.
“I’m completely fine, but I did get a bad mammogram, and I got taken into that room, and then I had an emergency biopsy and I waited for those for five days,” Barrymore said of awaiting her biopsy results.
Notaro, who underwent a double mastectomy after her 2012 diagnosis, empathized, noting, “It’s a long wait.”
As their conversation continued, Barrymore asked Notaro how she came to terms with her diagnosis. Notaro explained that the experience really changed her perspective on asking others for help.
“It cracked me open, completely,” Notaro said. “I went from being somebody that held everything to myself… I was going to do it on my own and [said], ‘I’m OK.’”
The comedian recalled struggling after surgery when she couldn’t even lift her arms, and urged others facing similar health challenges to accept help from others.
“What I can’t encourage people enough to do is get over any sort of feeling that you can’t ask for help, or to act like you don’t need anybody, like I was doing,” Notaro said.
“It was the greatest gift you can give yourself and the people that love you, because people want to help, people want to do good. It changed my life.”
Notaro also used her time on “The Drew Barrymore Show” to promote her new documentary, “Come See Me In the Good Light,” which she was a producer for.
The documentary, which drops on Apple TV+ on Nov. 14, follows poet Andrea Gibson as she navigates an incurable cancer diagnosis alongside her partner, Megan Falley.
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