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Stanley Tucci feels like he has a second lease on life following his recent, harrowing bout with cancer.
The actor revealed to People that he's “incredibly lucky” to be alive after being diagnosed with cancer in 2017, which led him to undergo a 35-day radiation treatment plus an additional seven sessions of chemotherapy. As a result of those treatments, his sense of taste and smell were so destroyed he was unable to eat and dependent on a feeding tube.
Prior to receiving an accurate diagnosis, Tucci says he spent two years living with extreme pain in his jaw. “I had a scan, but the scan missed it. And of course, when you think that there might be something wrong, you're also afraid that there is something wrong,” he explained. But even once he was correctly diagnosed as having a three-centimeter tumor at the base of his tongue, Tucci says, “They couldn't do surgery because the tumor was so big. It's a miracle that it didn't metastasize. It had been in me so long.”
These days, thankfully, the actor is cancer-free and living in London with his wife of a decade, Felicity Blunt, the older sister of actress Emily Blunt. His own diagnosis also hits particularly hard as he lost his first wife Kate in 2009 to breast cancer. The Devil Wears Prada star shares a 3-year-old daughter Emilia and 7-year-old son Matteo with Felicity and is also the father to three older children from his first marriage, 22-year-old twins Nicolo and Isabel, and 20-year-old Camilla.
A few months after his radiation and chemotherapy treatments ended in 2018, Tucci slowly began to regain his strength and ability to eat on his own, which was “just the most exciting thing in the world.” He adds that it was “Felicity's undying attention, affection and encouragement got me through it.” While the actor admits that there are some lingering complications from his cancer, like foods that taste “weird” and spicy dishes that are too painful to eat, fine dining is still very much at the center of his life. “I couldn't be with someone who didn't care about food. I just wouldn't be attracted to them,” Tucci confessed. “A perfect day off for me would be going to the farmer's market, buy a bunch of food, start cooking, play with the kids. And then have people over for dinner. To me, that's just a great day.”
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