Jenna Fischer Called Christina Applegate After Cancer Diagnosis

Jenna Fischer is opening up extra about her battle with breast most cancers.

On Monday, the Workplace star sat down with At the moment’s Hoda Kotb and revealed that Christina Applegate was one of many first folks she reached out to for assist after she was identified.

“I known as her, and he or she answered the telephone, and he or she stated, ‘Which one is it?’ And I stated, ‘It’s breast most cancers.’ And she or he stated, ‘I effing knew it’”

The 2 associated to one another’s experiences as a result of Applegate was additionally identified with breast most cancers in 2008. And Fischer was not shocked by Applegate’s response, “She’s salty. Salty language that one. I really like her for it,” Fischer stated.

Following their dialog, Applegate linked her with different survivors, and Fischer stated they went via their journeys “collectively.”

Fischer first introduced earlier this month that she had been privately coping with an “aggressive kind” of breast most cancers. The actress famous that after entering into for a routine mammogram she discovered she had Stage 1 triple optimistic breast most cancers. Her therapy included surgical procedure, chemotherapy and radiation — and so they had been profitable as she additionally introduced she’s now most cancers free.

Fischer’s look on At the moment was the primary time she’s been seen in an on-camera interview displaying brief hair, since she misplaced hers as a result of therapy.

“I imply, after they advised me I needed to have chemo, the very first thing I believed was, ‘I don’t need to throw up, and I don’t need to lose my hair,’” she stated.

“I didn’t throw up, however I did lose my hair,” Fischer continued. “And it’s all us girls discuss. How a lot Googling did I do of hair and footage of hair and, ‘What’s going to it appear to be?’ It’s humorous. The best way that I misplaced it, it doesn’t come out evenly.”

She initially wore wigs to maintain her analysis non-public, however she’s now able to embrace her brief hair and “ditch the wigs.”

Fischer additionally stated her two kids, 10 and 13, responded with “a fantastic humorousness” about seeing their mother’s new hair.