{"id":255027,"date":"2024-08-16T21:29:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T21:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/16\/saturday-night-live-alum-victoria-jackson-says-cancer-is-inoperable-hollywood-life\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:12:15","slug":"saturday-night-live-alum-victoria-jackson-says-cancer-is-inoperable-hollywood-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/16\/saturday-night-live-alum-victoria-jackson-says-cancer-is-inoperable-hollywood-life\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019 Alum Victoria Jackson Says Cancer Is Inoperable \u2013 Hollywood Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"entry-media edge-to-edge entry-media--lead-image\" aria-describedby=\"lead-image-credit\">\n<div class=\"image-wrapper image-wrapper--widescreen\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GettyImages-463579966_4b5f29-e1723837592860.jpg?quality=100&amp;w=384&amp;h=216&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-hl-384x216-tc size-hl-384x216-tc wp-post-image\" alt=\"NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 15:  Victoria Jackson attends the SNL 40th Anniversary Celebration at Rockefeller Plaza on February 15, 2015 in New York City.  (Photo by Gary Gershoff\/WireImage)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GettyImages-463579966_4b5f29-e1723837592860.jpg?quality=100&amp;w=384&amp;h=216&amp;crop=1 384w, https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GettyImages-463579966_4b5f29-e1723837592860.jpg?quality=100&amp;w=768&amp;h=432&amp;crop=1 768w, https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GettyImages-463579966_4b5f29-e1723837592860.jpg?quality=100&amp;w=1536&amp;h=864&amp;crop=1 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 670px\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><figcaption id=\"lead-image-credit\">Image Credit: WireImage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!-- .entry-media --><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-2\">Former <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> cast member <strong>Victoria Jackson<\/strong> announced this week that she has been diagnosed with inoperable cancer\u2014estimating she has roughly three years to live.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-3\">Jackson first revealed her breast cancer diagnosis in 2016, but on Wednesday, Aug. 14, the 65-year-old confirmed in her \u2018Is the Cancer Back?\u2019 Instagram video series that her cancer has indeed returned.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-4\">\u201cUpdate on the cancer: they cannot operate and cut out the marble in my chest that is laying on my windpipe and would eventually suffocate me to death,\u201d she said with a giggle at the beginning of the nearly 8-minute video.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-5\">\u201cThey\u2019re giving me a magic pill,\u201d Jackson added about her treatment. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be delivered to my front door within the next 12 hours. It\u2019s based on Ribociclib, and it will shrink the marble, hopefully\u2026 I looked up the pill on Google, and it says people who take this have 32.6 months to live\u2014something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-6\">In her Instagram caption, however, Jackson gave a slightly longer timeline. \u201cCancer Update: I have 34.8 months to live if I don\u2019t get hit by a meteor, shot by a MAGA hater, get Covid again, or WWIII breaks out.\u201d (Jackson has become a conservative and religious activist in recent years, often sharing Bible scripture and praising former President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> on social media.)<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-7\">After revealing the unfortunate news, the comedian\u2014who was on SNL from 1986 to 1992\u2014still maintained a positive tone, telling her followers that she\u2019s had a \u201cfantastic life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-8\">Despite appreciating the life she\u2019s already lived, she mentioned milestones she would still like to be a part of.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-9\">\u201cI\u2019d like to see my grandson born\u2014his name is Jimmy\u2014in October and get to know him a little, and I would like to see my daughter Aubrey have a baby,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-10\">Jackson made regular appearances on \u201cWeekend Update\u201d during her time on <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> and was known for doing various impressions, from <strong>Roseanne Barr<\/strong> to <strong>Zsa Zsa Gabor<\/strong>. Her acting credits also include episodes of <em>The X-Files<\/em>, <em>In the Heat of the Night<\/em>, <em>Sesame Street<\/em>, and more. Jackson\u2019s film appearances include <em>Family Business<\/em>, <em>The Matchbreaker<\/em>, and other titles.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2024\/08\/16\/victoria-jackson-says-cancer-is-inoperable\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Image Credit: WireImage Former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson announced this week that she has been diagnosed with inoperable cancer\u2014estimating she has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}