Jill Goodacre, the former Victoria's Secret model and wife of New Orleans entertainer Harry Connick Jr., is opening up about her until-now private battle with breast cancer. In the new issue of People magazine and on Thursday's (Oct. 26) episode of Connick's daytime talk show, "Harry," Goodacre shares her journey, which started five years ago this month when she was diagnosed with the disease.
"I'll never forget it. It's one of the hardest days of my life," she said in a clip from Connick's show.
What made it that much worse was that her cancer was undetectable in a routine mammogram. By the time it was discovered, she had Stage 1 invasive cancer. After two surgeries, radiation treatment and drug therapy, she's been in remission for nearly five years, which is why she and Connick are now opening up about their journey.
"It wasn't like we were superstitious, like if we said something about being in the clear we'd somehow jinx it," Goodacre told People. "But we wanted to be well on the other side of things before we told everybody. The doctors all say that after the five-year mark, things look optimistic, so we're starting to feel pretty good."
Via social media, Connick -- whose mother died of ovarian cancer when he was 13 -- added, "If this info can help just one person, we're happy."
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