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'Desperate Housewives' Kathryn Joosten has lung cancer
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Desperate Housewives actress Kathryn Joosten has lung cancer.
Joosten, 69, who plays Mrs. McCluskey on Housewives, beat the illness in 2001, but found out less than a week ago that the cancer had returned.
"I've got a little hang-up here," Joosten tells People. "But we're going to handle it and move forward. I'm doing great."
The actress said that when she broke the news to the Housewives producers that her treatment could interrupt shooting, they were completely behind her.
"They're totally supportive," she says. "I said, 'If you want to put it in the story line, do it! Tell anybody you want, because the public's going to know.' "
Two weeks ago Joosten underwent a check-up and doctors found a spot on her lung.
"I felt like the legs had been pushed out from under me," Joosten says of receiving the news. "I completely did not expect it, and was devastated. I was crying for nearly five days straight."
Joosten says that her goal is to erase the stigma associated with lung cancer.
"The first thing everyone says is, 'Did you smoke?' Yeah, I smoked," says Joosten. "I smoked because Betty Davis said it was very glamorous. I smoked because it was seen everywhere and done everywhere. I got addicted because the tobacco companies add additives to their tobacco to make it more addictive. I'm damned mad at all of them. But that stigma has to go away."
In short, Joosten says, "No one deserves lung cancer."
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