Amanda Peet Shares How Her Kids Reacted to Her Breast Cancer Diagnosis (Exclusive)
Amanda Peet is calling on friends, neighbors and family for support.
Days after the Dirty John alum revealed she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, she shared how her and husband David Benioff’s kids Frances, 19, Molly, 15, and Henry, 11, have dealt with the health update.
“They’ve been great,” Amanda told E! News’ Will Marfuggi in an exclusive interview, noting she needed to be in the right mindset before sharing the news with them. “I definitely had to get myself together before including them.”
The 54-year-old added, “The hard part was realizing that nothing is certain and there was going to be no perfect time to tell them.”
In her March 21 essay published in The New Yorker, Amanda shared that her cancer was hormone-receptor-positive and HER2-negative, meaning it is less aggressive and often easier to treat than more aggressive forms of breast cancer. She also noted that she would “only need a lumpectomy and radiation,” not a double mastectomy.
