Christina Applegate says she has a clean bill of health after undergoing
treatment for breast cancer. "I'm clear," Applegate tells ABC News' "Good
Morning America" in an interview airing yesterday. "Absolutely 100 percent clear
and clean. It did not spread. They got everything out, so I'm definitely not
going to die from breast cancer."
Applegate's interview with "GMA" was taped Monday.
The actress' publicist, Ame Van Iden, announced earlier this month that
Applegate was being treated for the disease after it was detected through a
doctor-ordered MRI.
"I was so mad," she says in the "GMA" interview when she first heard the
news. "I was just shaking and - and then also immediately, I had to go into ...
`take-care-of-business-mode,' which was ... I asked them, `What do I do now?
What - what is it that I do? I get a doctor, I get a surgeon, I get an
oncologist? What do I do?'"
Applegate, 36, says she "immediately made those appointments and immediately
called around for ... someone to start teaching me how to live macrobiotically."
She was referring to following a healthy diet of fish, grains, beans and
vegetables, and avoiding processed foods.
The actress, whose mother battled breast cancer, says she began getting
mammograms at the age of 30.
Applegate is scheduled to appear on a one-hour TV special, "Stand Up to
Cancer," to be aired on ABC, CBS and NBC on Sept. 5 to raise funds for cancer
research.
She has been nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the ABC show
"Samantha Who?", in which she plays a woman who wakes from a coma with no memory
of who she is.
