The whole ordeal led “The Nanny” star, 65, to create Cancer Schmancer in 2007, a non-profit organization dedicated to women’s cancers. “Americans are in a revolving door of toxic exposure, chronic illness and drug dependency,” she told us, adding that we have to “break the shackles” and “start really examining what is weakening our immune system, why our bodies are reacting in a way that’s chronic illness.” Proceeds for “N is for The Nanny” goes to Drescher’s non-profit. “I think, it’s, you know, not a coincidence that I didn’t deal with being raped and ended up with gynecological cancer.”ĭrescher - who was diagnosed with uterine cancer in 2000 and underwent an immediate radical hysterectomy after two years of misdiagnoses by a host of doctors - also told us she believed toxic exposure also was part of giving her cancer.
“I experienced trauma as a rape victim and for years I really didn’t dive into how it impacted me emotionally, I just kind of got on with my life,” she told us at the book launch for “N is for The Nanny” on Thursday. The actress - who was raped at gunpoint during a home invasion in 1985 - told Page Six she thinks her weakened immune system from not processing the rape was one of the reasons she ended up with cancer in 2000.
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