Actor Chadwick Boseman’s widow, Simone Ledward Boseman, spoke out about his colon cancer diagnosis on the Today Show. She told the show’s co-host Craig Melvin that the diagnosis came as a surprise.
Chadwick was diagnosed with Stage 3 colon cancer in 2016. The Black Panther actor passed away on August 28, 2020 at the age of 43.
Ledward Boseman spoke on Chadwick’s “really tricky” condition
During the interview, Simone said, “I didn’t know that he was experiencing anything until he had already been to the doctor twice. It all seemed to come about very suddenly. It was a matter of weeks that he started not feeling well.” She described cancer as being “really tricky in that way.”
Simone is not clear if the disease runs in her late husband’s family. “I still don’t know his family history,” she told Craig. “And because he was so young, he wasn’t even at the point where he would consider having a colonoscopy.”
The couple was “very confident” he would survive the frightening diagnosis. “To us, it was going to be a challenging moment, but something that he would come out on the other side of and be fine. And they would do a surgery, and he would do some chemo afterward, and he would be OK. And there wasn’t much talk at all of the possibility of him not being OK on the other side of that,” she said.
Chadwick was pronounced cancer-free in 2018, but the cancer returned later that year as Stage 4.
The Avengers: Infinity War actor worked during his cancer treatment, but kept his diagnosis private. “Chad was not a person that would have wanted to be treated any differently because people knew that he was sick,” she said. “The work is what was keeping him moving, so he didn’t want the work to suffer just because he was sick,” Simone said.
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