TV legend VALERIE HARPER’s secret life-or-death battle – IN HER OWN WORDS.
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TV legend VALERIE HARPER’s secret life-or-death battle – IN HER OWN WORDS.
For the first time, the Emmy Award winning star of the “Mary Tyler Moore Show”, and her spin-off comedy “Rhoda”, has publicly revealed her terrifying life-or-death struggle with the deadly disease in her new memoir – “I, Rhoda”.
Valerie said she never opened up about her ordeal before because, “I didn’t want to be pitied. I wanted to move on.”
But the star, who had followed a healthy lifestyle after her mother Iva died from the same disease, now describes her terror when a mysterious spot was found on her lung.
“My mind started to go crazy – what had I done to bring this on myself? I didn’t drink. I’d never smoked,” wrote the 72-year-old actress.