Suzanne Rogers is opening up about her health.
In a new interview, the 82-year-old Emmy-winning actress, best known for playing Maggie Horton on Days of Our Lives, revealed that she has been diagnosed with stage 2 colorectal cancer.
Keep reading to find out more…After feeling that something “wasn’t quite right” with her body, Suzanne told TV Insider on Thursday (October 30) that she underwent a series of tests and that’s when her doctor discovered that she had cancer.
“[My doctor] said, ‘You have cancer and you have to start treatment.’ It was all a shock,” she recalled. “I think I was in a shock for several days because I take pretty good care of myself. But he said, ‘It’s a good thing you caught it in time.’”
After wrapping Days of Our Lives for the summer, the soap legend began treatment three days later.
“It was radiation every day and chemo every day for six weeks and it was tough,” Suzanne shared. “It was tough knowing you had to do it five days a week and then you had off Saturday and Sunday. I thoroughly enjoyed my weekends because I didn’t have to go to and see a doctor. I was so tired of seeing doctors.”
She went on to reveal that she completed treatment on July 31 and is “feeling really good” now.
“I start back to work next week, so we’ll see how that goes,” Suzanne said. “Now, I’m feeling anxious like I do any time I get scripts because I want to do my very best and you don’t want to hold up anybody. So that’s the only anxiousness I feel. It’s not because of my illness, let’s put it that way.”
Suzanne also noted that she didn’t lose her signature red hair while going through treatment.
“I guess because I was taking the chemo pills,” she said. “I’m sure there’ll be people that are saying, ‘Well, she didn’t really have cancer,’ but you know what? I really don’t care what people say. I know what I’ve gone through and I’ve come out on the other side, so that’s all I care about.”
In her over five-decade run as Maggie, Suzanne is the longest-running actor in an American soap opera and plays the longest-running character role in American soap opera history. See all of the other stars that have been on their soap operas for decades!
Source: justjared.com
