Stanley Tucci has gone public about his recent battle with cancer.
The Emmy Award-winning actor told Vera magazine that in 2018 he was diagnosed with a tumor at the base of his tongue. “It was too big to operate, so they had to do high-dose radiation and chemo,” Tucci explained. At one point, he was forced to use a feeding tube.
Tucci said he was initially reluctant to undergo chemotherapy as his first wife, Kate Spath-Tucci, died of cancer, “and to watch her go through those treatments for years was horrible.”
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Fortunately, the treatment was successful and doctors told Tucci that his cancer is unlikely to come back. However, Tucci added that “I feel much older than I did before I was sick. But you still want to get ahead and get things done.”
Tucci currently stars in the Apple TV+ animated comedy Central Park, and hosts the CNN culinary series Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy. He also recently starred opposite Colin Firth in the British romantic drama Supernova.
