Washington
(ANI):
Cancer
survivor
Christina
Applegate
has
opened
up
about
the
emotional
turmoil
involved
in
her
decision
to
receive
a
double-mastectomy,
admitting
that
she
was
in
tears
when
a
surgeon
came
to
remove
her
breasts.
The
Emmy
Award-winning
actress,
who
was
recently
diagnosed
with
breast
cancer,
had
thought
that
she
had
toughened
against
the
devastating
news
when
she
gave
the
go-ahead
to
her
doctor.
However,
the
Anchorman
star
revealed
on
Oprah
Winfrey's
U.S.
talk
show,
that
when
the
doctor
brought
in
the
surgeon
to
carry
out
the
double
mastectomy,
she
broke
down.
"I
was
just
gonna
let
them
(breasts)
go...
and
then,
when
I
met
with
my
doctor
and
I
told
him
that
was
my
decision
and
he
brought
the
surgeon
in,
it
was
like
the
floodgates
just
opened
up
and
I
lost
it," Contactmusic
quoted
her
as
saying.
The
actress
further
revealed
that
somehow
she
always
suspected
to
be
diagnosed
with
cancer
since
her
mother
is
a
two-time
breast
cancer
survivor.
"There
was
this
part
of
me
that
sort
of
knew
that
the
other
shoe
was
gonna
drop," she
added.