Howard Stern Show co-host Robin Quivers has been fighting cancer for more than a year. After nearly a year and a half of broadcasting from home, Monday morning Quivers finally confirmed what the Howard Stern Show audience has feared for months.
Quivers last appeared in the Sirius XM studio in May 2012, when she revealed that she was about to undergo surgery to remove a grapefruit sized mass that had been found pressing on her bladder. She returned to the air a few weeks later, but was broadcasting from home via ISDN line. Howard Stern Show fans, who are never shy about asking brutal, personal questions have been clamoring for news on the Stern Show queen ever since, and Stern and his co-workers have made every effort to dodge them.
See a clip from today's Howard Stern Show discussion of Robin's cancer here
Monday, though, was the moment of truth fans had been waiting for. Howard Stern started the discussion by taking fans back to Quivers' May 2012 diagnosis, and the part of the story the audience didn't here:
"Robin told me before the operation that it was cancer," said Stern. "That they tested this thing inside of her--a tumor. They had said to you: one of the possibilities is if they have to be really invasive, you might never be able to even go to the bathroom again or something."
Quivers confirmed the grim prognosis:
"This wasn't a peeing thing. This was a stool thing. They were saying they might have to remove my colon. I've always been a quality of life kind of person and I didn't want to live in a certain state."
Stern and Quivers have been on-air teammates and off-air best friends for more than 30 years. Stern says that the prospect of losing Quivers was absolutely unbearable to him:
"I'll tell you how serious this was," said Stern. "I was already making funeral arrangements. Not to make light of the thing. I didn't know what was going on. It was just the most awful, awful thing ever."
Quivers confirmed that the situation was indeed "sounding very dire," until she met a team of doctors from the famous Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who refused to believe she was a lost cause, and said that they were going for a cure. And they got one.
"About three months ago I go into my doctor’s office. She just looks at everything and she goes: you’re cured,” said Quivers.
Stern choked up as Quivers recounted the story, saying:
“As Robin tells the story, I now get chills again, because I remember feeling very distraught, and the fact that they told Robin they could go for a cure was—it gives you hope. Robin means more to me than anyone, and seeing her go through this just f***ing tore me up. I’ll be honest.”
Stay with the Howard Stern Examiner for more on this story as it develops.
