This ’80s TV Icon Revealed the Truth About the Day Her Cancer Battle Began – The Same Illness That Took Her Husband of 33 Years

Blythe Danner, best known for her iconic roles in ’80s TV and Meet the Parents, has opened up about her private fight with adenoid cystic carcinoma — the same rare oral cancer that took her husband, Bruce Paltrow, in 2002. While working abroad in 2018, she noticed brain fog and a lump near her jaw — eerily close to where Bruce had once found his.

“I remember looking up and asking, ‘Are you lonely up there?’” Danner recalled. The Emmy-winning actress delayed telling her family, choosing instead to quietly undergo surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiation. “I didn’t want them to worry,” she said. Even her daughter, Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow, was unaware at first. “It was scary,” Gwyneth shared, noting the uncanny similarity to her father’s illness.

After years of treatment and a final major surgery in 2020, Blythe entered remission. Now 82, she uses her platform to raise awareness through the Oral Cancer Foundation. “It’s a bit of a crapshoot — this disease and this life,” she said, “but I’m very grateful.”

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