Nicole Eggert spoke exclusively to People on Monday January 8, 2024. The interpreter of Summer Quinn in Baywatch revealed that she had stage 2 breast cancer.
Revealed on television in the 1980s, Nicole Eggert acquired great notoriety following her role as Summer Quinn in Baywatch. Now aged 51, the mother is going through a very complicated period. In fact, she is suffering from breast cancer. In an interview given to Peopleshe explained that she had gained more than 10 kilos in three months and that she had felt “terrible pain” At left breast last October.
Certain that these were symptoms of menopause, Nicole Eggert still contacted her doctor, who asked her to get examined as quickly as possible. “The problem was I just couldn’t get an appointment. Everything was reserved. So I had to wait until the end of November to make it” she explained. After a discovery mammogram and three biopsies, the diagnosis of stage 2 cribriform carcinoma finally fell at the beginning of December.
Nicole Eggert worried about her daughter Keegan: “She needs me”.
Since the confirmation of her cancer, the former sidekick of Pamela Anderson has been the victim of “panic attacks“. His greatest fear concerns above all his two daughters, Dilyn (25 years old) and Keegan (12 years old). She explained on this subject: “Dilyn is an adult, but I have a 12 year old at home for whom I am the sole caretaker. I have no family, I have nothing (…) She needs me more than anything and everything“.
If Nicole Eggert is determined to win the battle against her breast cancer, she is today facing many financial problems. “At night, when I lie down, I panic because I think, well, who’s going to pay all the bills? Who will do all this?” she reported. GoFundMe page was therefore created by her friend Mindy Molinary to support her financially in this ordeal. Nicole Eggert is now waiting for her oncologist to return to start chemotherapy and radiotherapy. However, she fears the possibility that the disease has spread to other parts of his body.