Olivia Munn Documented Her Son’s Cancer Journey to Show Him She ‘Did the Best I Could’ if She ‘Didn’t Make It’
Olivia Munn shared the heartbreaking reason she decided to document her cancer journey.
In 2022, the 43-year-old actress was diagnosed with luminal B cancer, “an aggressive, fast-moving cancer,” in both breasts. After privately battling the illness, she announced your breast cancer diagnosis and revealed that she underwent a double mastectomy in a March Instagram post.
During an interview Thursday with “Good Morning America,” Munn recalled that the first thing he thought about was his 2-year-old son Malcolm when he received his diagnosis.
“Cancer is… that’s the word you don’t want to hear,” he told host Michael Strahan. “There are a lot of other things that you feel like you can overcome, but you know that cancer kills a lot of people. And I just thought about my baby.”
“The Newsroom” star shares Malcolm with her partner John Mulaney, 41.
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When asked why he “wanted to document” his trip, Munn explained that it was for Malcolm.
“Well, because if I didn’t make it, I wanted my son to know when he grew up that I fought to be here,” he said.
“That I did the best I could,” Munn added. “You want the people in your life, you want the people who maybe don’t understand what’s going on to know that you did everything you could to be here.”
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As part of her treatment, Munn underwent therapy that suppressed the hormones that allowed the cancer to grow, but put her body into a medically induced menopause.
The “Magic Mike” actress explained that the effects of the treatment left her weak and made it difficult for her to function.
“Hormone suppression therapy is brutal and gave me next-level debilitating exhaustion,” Munn said. “I was in bed all day, all day, and my quality of life was so minimal that I couldn’t be there for my baby.”
Munn told Strahan that she decided to act after Malcolm noticed the change in her.
“Every time Malcolm came into the house, he would run straight to my bed because that’s where he knows I am, like that’s what he associated with me,” she recalled.
“And that was too hard for me,” Munn said. “I had to find out if there was another option.”
Munn said she opted to undergo a hysterectomy and oophorectomy, marking her fifth surgery since receiving her diagnosis.
“Almost immediately after that, my energy came back full force,” he said.
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However, Munn and Mulaney were still hoping to expand their family, so she decided to freeze her eggs before undergoing the procedures.
“Immediately after the double mastectomy, I went through a round of egg retrieval,” she said.
“That’s a scary process because I have a cancer that feeds on hormones, so I knew there was a risk and our doctor said, ‘Look, we’ll get you one and then we’ll call him,'” she explained. . “And then our doctor called and said, ‘Hey, we got the results. Those are two healthy embryos,’ and I… I mean, we started crying, crying, both of us.”
“We really just hope that we can have another baby,” she added. “I just want one more. I’m not going to ask for much more in this life, I promise. I just want one more baby.”
Munn said his doctor recommended that he soon start taking another medication that will suppress the production of hormones that could cause cancer in other parts of his body.
The actress admitted that she questioned whether she was willing to undergo another treatment.
“I’ve been very aggressive,” she said. “I did everything they told me to do. I did all the major surgeries. And now I’m wondering, ‘Do I have to use this extra medication?'”
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“It’s very exhausting,” Munn explained. “These drugs are very exhausting, and I know I’m going to continue to be aggressive. I know I’m going to do it. I’m surprised that I’m even asking for anything less than aggressive because, I mean, as you know, it just feels non-stop.”
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“Because it’s non-stop,” he added.
Munn also shared what she had learned about herself and her priorities during her battle with cancer.
“I’m a lot braver than I thought,” he said.
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“And I learned that the most important thing to me in life is my family,” Munn continued. “Everything else can go away, I don’t have my career, I don’t have my body the way it was before, but as long as the people I love and care about are here, healthy and thriving, nothing else matters.” “.