CHRISTINA APPLEGATE STILL "SHAKING" OVER BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSISOn Tuesday's Oprah Winfrey Show, Christina Applegate says she wasn't surprised when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 36.
"I knew. I just knew. And I went home and they called me and, I mean,
you don't -- you don't want to hear that ever," she says.
"It came back positive. And I just -- like right now I'm sitting here shaking remembering that moment. As you guys know, you don't think it's gonna happen to me," she goes on.
Her 67-year-old mother, Nancy Priddy, "had it twice and there was this part of me that sort of knew that the other shoe was gonna drop," Applegate says.
Soon after her diagnosis, the actress decided she was going to have a double mastectomy - even though cancer was only detected in one of her breasts.
"Yep. I was just gonna let them go," she tells Winfrey in a matter-of-fact tone.
Asked if she cried, Applegate says, "At first I didn't. And then when I met with my doctor, and I told him that was my decision, and he brought the surgeon in ... it was like the flood gates just opened up and I -- I lost it."
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Applegate is now cancer-free.
A presenter and nominee at the year's Emmys, she told Usmagazine.com on the red carpet, "I am doing fantastic cast!! I am great!"
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