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<\/p>\nAustralian comedian and actor Judith Lucy has announced she has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will undergo a double mastectomy.<\/p>\n
In a video posted to social media, Lucy said she received the diagnosis three weeks ago, which was “relatively” non-aggressive and in the early stages.<\/p>\n
She said although she originally was slated to undergo a lumpectomy, her doctor found more cancer last week and decided to remove one of her breasts.<\/p>\n
“I said, ‘While you are there, let’s get rid of the other one,'” she said.<\/p>\n
“So I think I am quite fine with going bra-free for my last chapter.<\/p>\n
“I’m in shock, but I am OK.”<\/p>\n
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Judith Lucy announced she was stepping back from stand-up comedy in 2022. (Supplied: Nick Robertson\/Just For Laughs)<\/p>\n
She starred in an ABC series called Judith Lucy Is All Woman, and has appeared on Australian talk shows including Rove and The Project.<\/p>\n
Last week, Lucy released a book titled Well Well Well: My Wellness Odyssey from Psychics to Psychedelics and Beyond.<\/p>\n
“There is nothing like releasing a book about wellness as you are being diagnosed with breast cancer,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Kind of the point of the book is that there are no quick fixes, and we should all just be living differently.”<\/p>\n
Messages of support<\/p>\n
There has been an outpouring of support for Lucy on her social media posts from fellow comedians.<\/p>\n
Celia Pacquola commented that she was “the most spectacular woman with [or] without those 10\/10 knockers”.<\/p>\n
Geraldine Hickey wrote that “It’ll be a weight off your chest!”<\/p>\n
Dave Hughes said, “you make everything funny. And how do we buy this book? Xmas gifts sorted for all. Love you Judith.”<\/p>\n
Writer Ben Law commented that this news “sucks”.<\/p>\n
“We love you\u2026we all promise to order your book in honour of your norks,” he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian comedian and actor Judith Lucy has announced she has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will undergo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,17579,1617,28567,2673,134,485974],"class_list":["post-917801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breast-cancer","tag-cancer","tag-comedian","tag-diagnosis","tag-entertainment","tag-judith-lucy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917801","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=917801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}