New
York
(ANI):
Sex
And
The
City
star
Cynthia
Nixon
secretly
battled
breast
cancer
two
years
ago.
Nixon,
who
is
42-years-old
and
who
is
best
known
for
her
role
as
neurotic
Manhattan
attorney
Miranda
Hobbes
in
the
TV
series,
spoke
about
her
ordeal
with
ABC's
"Good
Morning
America" on
Tuesday
Apr
15.
"I
had
a
lumpectomy
and
then
I
had
six
and
a
half
weeks
of
radiation," New
York
Daily
News
quoted
her
as
telling
"Good
Morning
America".
Nixon
had
been
diagnosed
with
the
disease
in
2006
while
starring
in
the
off-Broadway
play
The
Prime
of
Miss
Jean
Brodie
and
she
kept
her
condition
a
secret,
even
scheduling
her
surgery
on
a
Sunday,
to
avoid
missing
a
performance.
"I
didn't
really
want
to
make
it
public
while
I
was
going
through
it.
I
didn't
want
paparazzi
at
the
hospital,
that
kind
of
thing,"
Nixon,
who
admitted
she
was
"scared",
said.
"I
thought,
'Oh,
I
don't
want
this
to
be
happening.' I
was
very
cognizant
of
if
it's
going
to
happen,
this
is
the
best
way
for
it
to
happen,
that
it's
found
so
early
and
we
can
just
get
right
on
it,"
she
revealed.
The
Emmy
Award
winning
actress
revealed
that
her
mother
Ann
had
battled
cancer
twice,
30
years
earlier.
The
only
people
that
Nixon
confided
in
were
her
girlfriend
of
four
years,
Christine
Marinoni,
and
her
children,
Samantha
and
Charles,
from
her
relationship
with
Danny
Mozes.
"My
girlfriend
was
very
scared," said
Nixon
during
the
interview.
"We
made
a
big
point
of
talking
to
my
kids
about
it.
I
basically
told
them
they
found
some
cancer
in
my
right
breast,"
explained
the
star.
Nixon
is
getting
involved
in
the
fight
against
breast
cancer,
becoming
a
spokeswoman
for
the
Susan
G.
Komen
Breast
Cancer
Foundation
next
year.