Her head fully in the game, “I was more worried about getting better for work, because that’s my happy place,” she recalled of prepping to go under the knife. “I felt like, ‘Okay, we’re going to do this surgery and we’re going to figure it out.”
After the initial procecure that October, “I found out my cancer went past the margins and I needed even more surgery,” she recounted. “So, yeah, it was a lot.”
But she huddled up with family and friends and was declared cancer-free in November.
“I remember the day after my second surgery, I was finding out the results on a Monday, and I was actually at Dancing with the Stars,” she recounted of getting the call from her surgeon while prepping for dress rehearsal with her stylist.
Taking the stage after, alongside cohost Tom Bergeron, “I said, ‘What are you doing tonight?'” Andrews detailed. “And he said, ‘Nothing. I’m just going home after the show.’ And I said, ‘No, you’re going to the bar with me after the show. I just found out I’m cancer free.'”
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