{"id":817977,"date":"2026-07-23T04:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817977\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T04:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:15:13","slug":"william-shatner-and-daughter-melanie-reveal-shock-stage-4-cancer-diagnoses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817977\/","title":{"rendered":"William Shatner and daughter Melanie reveal shock stage 4 cancer diagnoses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Trek<\/a> legend William Shatner<\/a> and his daughter Melanie Shatner Gretsch both went through private battles with stage four cancer<\/a> at the same time. <\/p>\n

Canadian<\/a> actor Shatner, 95<\/a>, was diagnosed with stage 4 malignant melanoma that spread to his lungs and brain in 2023, while Gretsch, 61, had been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer one year prior. <\/p>\n

\"William<\/p>\n

William Shatner and his daughter Melanie have revealed they simultaneously battled stage 4 cancer.\u00a0AP<\/p>\n

The pair opened up about their health battles in a joint interview with People<\/a>, where they revealed they are now both fortunately cancer free. <\/p>\n

\u201cChemo was the most physically draining, and the radiation I found so emotionally draining,\u201d Gretsch said of her battle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember vividly thinking, \u2018I don\u2019t have the strength to take care of myself\u00a0and\u00a0lose my father at the same time.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

But the actor remained strong in his own battle and supported his daughter. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re bonded by all kinds of difficulties that we\u2019ve overcome,\u201d Shatner proudly said of his family. <\/p>\n

In April this year, Shatner was forced to hit back at rumours he had brain cancer. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is getting insane,\u201d he said, after recently revealing he was due to have\u00a0surgery for an injury after falling off a horse.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMy daughter came over to tell me her daughter heard that I had brain cancer. \ud83d\ude44 She took this photo and sent it to me to upload to prove I\u2019m not ill. \ud83e\udd37<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people who are ill are those that are spreading these ridiculous stories. I\u2019m fit as a fiddle. You don\u2019t have to worry. This is getting insane,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n

He recently shed light on his health,\u00a0revealing at the Saturn Awards that he fell off a horse<\/a>\u00a0and needed shoulder surgery.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ride the horses that can compete in equine skills, which is fast down and ends on a sliding stop,\u201d he told media at the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the horse that I owned, I came off.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe had a habit of going too far, like six inches to the side. And I\u2019m riding it. And I\u2019m ready. And she goes…<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a young stuntman anymore. I started to roll, but hit the dirt with my shoulder. So I wrecked my shoulder,\u201d he said, adding he was set to have a \u201cnew type of shoulder operation called a reverse something or other\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star Trek legend William Shatner and his daughter Melanie Shatner Gretsch both went through private battles with stage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-817977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}