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| Christina Applegate |
Emmy nominated Samantha Who? star Christina Applegate has been diagnosed with breast cancer, her publicist Ame Van Idin confirmed in a statement Saturday.
"Christina Applegate was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. Benefiting from early detection through a doctor ordered MRI, the cancer is not life threatening. Christina is following the recommended treatment of her doctors and will have a full recovery. No further statement will be issued at this time."
Emmy and Golden Globe nominated for ABC’s run-away hit Samantha Who?, about a young business woman who comes out of an eight-day coma with complete amnesia about her past, 36-year-old Applegate won an Emmy in 2003 for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for playing Jennifer Anniston’s character Rachel Green’s self-involved younger sister Amy on Friends.
Samantha Who? marks Applegate’s full-time return to television since her iconic role as the flaky Kelly Bundy on the Fox’s Married with Children, which ran for 11 seasons beginning in 1988.
A spokeswoman for Lee National Denim Day, a national fundraiser to benefit breast cancer programs, Applegate took up the cause after her mother, a breast cancer survivor, beat the disease.
The actress is slated to appear at Stand Up To Cancer, a one-hour television special to be aired on ABC, CBS and NBC on Sept. 5 to raise funds for cancer research.
Applegate faced tragedy earlier this summer when her boyfriend Lee Grivas died of a drug overdose in early July.
