{"id":266824,"date":"2024-12-16T21:14:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T21:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/about-her-cancer-battle-before-death-hollywood-life\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:02","slug":"about-her-cancer-battle-before-death-hollywood-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/about-her-cancer-battle-before-death-hollywood-life\/","title":{"rendered":"About Her Cancer Battle Before Death \u2013 Hollywood Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jill Jacobson<\/strong>, who was best known for projects such as Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em><\/a> and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em>, died<\/a> on December 8, 2024, multiple outlets reported. She was 70 years old. Jacobson revealed earlier this year that she had been batting a form of cancer but chose to keep it under wraps.<\/p>\n

Hollywood Life<\/strong> explains everything we know about Jacobson\u2019s health and cause of death, below.<\/p>\n

Jill Jacobson\u2019s Health<\/h2>\n

In September 2024, Jacobson unveiled the \u201csecret\u201d she had been hiding for years \u2014 her battle with esophageal cancer. The late actress explained her health issue during an appearance on The Jim Masters Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a secret. Kind of took me out of the game for a while,\u201d Jacobson began. \u201cIt was esophageal cancer. It took like two, two and a half years of treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n

While adding that her experience \u201cwas pretty intense,\u201d Jacobson also described how it felt living with the illness.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t function, you just can\u2019t function,\u201d the Falcon Crest<\/em> alum said. \u201cAnd now I\u2019m so grateful, I just want to keep going, I want to help people. It makes you want to help people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What Is Esophageal Cancer?<\/h2>\n

Esophageal cancer is a growth of harmful cells in the esophagus, which connects the throat to the stomach, per Mayo Clinic<\/a>. Living with the illness makes it difficult to swallow food and liquids. There are no preventative measures to take to avoid esophageal cancer, and treatment typically involves surgically removing the tumor from a patient\u2019s esophagus.<\/p>\n

How Did Jill Jacobson Die?<\/h2>\n

Jacobson\u2019s team did not mention her esophageal cancer while announcing her death. However, the late actress\u2019 friend and publicist, Daniel Harary, confirmed to Variety<\/em><\/a> that Jacobson died following a \u201clong illness.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement obtained by Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a>, Jacobson\u2019s manager, Ben Padua, paid tribute to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are incredibly sad to say \u2018goodbye\u2019 to our beautiful, soulful, hysterically funny, elegantly raunchy client, Jill Jacobson,\u201d the statement read. \u201cJill was a total spitfire of an actress with comedic timing straight out of a Marx Brothers\u2019 flick and Hollywood glamor right from its golden age. Jill took us on so many adventures, and she was an absolute blast. Thank you, Jill. We\u2019ll see you in our dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

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