Amy Robach while on duty and healthy
Imagine baring your soul to 6 million people at once — and having no
recollection of the moment.
It happened to “Good Morning America” news anchor Amy Robach, who was
diagnosed with breast cancer and took a leave of absence from the telecast to
undergo a double mastectomy last fall. But the rising network news star with
beauty queen looks and the iron will of a boxer returned to the telecast just
three weeks after the major surgery.
Amy Robach while preparing for the cancer chemotherapy
The mother of two and stepmother of three also remained on the air
through eight grueling rounds of chemotherapy and took only a week off earlier
this month to undergo and then recover from reconstructive surgery.
Amy Robach after diagnosed and lost her memory.
The way Robach, 40, was diagnosed — she grudgingly underwent a
mammogram in Times Square on live TV in October — has been well covered. But in
an exclusive and in-depth interview with the Daily News, Robach reveals new
details about her life-altering ordeal and why, despite her agony, she never
stopped showing up for work.
“I was absolutely scared on many levels, because fear is such a part of
cancer,” Robach said.
“The funny thing is I actually have thanked ABC News several times for
letting me come back so quickly. I wanted to have something in my life to focus
on other than doctors and needles and medicines and just looking at numbers and
statistics and waiting for tests. It was such an amazing distraction. And interestingly
enough, being afraid of what I might say or what I might forget to say on the
air was just another part of the overall fear of cancer — it invades your body,
it invades your mind.
“And so because I knew I was afraid of what might happen, that was
exactly why I was going to keep coming to work, I needed to keep coming on the
set every morning and face my fear. I did not want to let cancer — and the fear
of what could happen to me physically or mentally while I was in front of 6
million people — I didn’t want to let that stop me from doing what I love.”
In December, Robach started chemotherapy. The powerful drugs doctors
pumped into her system made her sick, caused about a quarter of her hair to
fall out and, at times, blew away her memory. But she kept coming into work —
even as she did and said things on television that she would immediately
forget.
“When I was on the air, I felt like I was functional. But chemo is
cumulative, so each round it hits you harder and it has some pretty scary side
effects, like memory loss.
“The chemo brain, the chemo fog, is a real thing. I would have
conversations with people, they would take pictures with me after the show and
they would send them to me and say thank you and it took my breath away — it
upset me tremendously because I actually wouldn’t be able to remember taking
that picture or having a conversation, and for me that was one of the hardest
side effects of chemo. I was so afraid I was gonna drop the ball or just do or
say something stupid because I wasn’t in my sharpest mode.
“Here’s an example, and I only know this happened because I have seen
the picture from a segment we had done about ‘Mad Men,’ ” she said.
“During the break we had a whole wardrobe change, they picked out a new
dress for me and they had us wear 1960s-style glasses and they changed our
whole look — but I did not remember doing any of it.
“The next day I saw pictures from the segment and I started asking
people, ‘Why am I in another dress? And why do I have those glasses on?’ and I
was told, ‘Because we did the ‘Mad Men’ segment.
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