Stanley Tucci revealed he battled most cancers three years in the past — a decade after shedding his first spouse to the illness.

The Starvation Video games star shared his previous well being scare in a , explaining that he had a tumor on the bottom of his tongue.

“It was too large to function, so that they needed to do high-dose radiation and chemo,” he shared. “I’d vowed I’d by no means do something like that, as a result of my first spouse died of most cancers, and to look at her undergo these therapies for years was horrible.”

Kathryn Spath-Tucci, who Tucci married in 1995, handed away in 2009 following a battle with breast most cancers. The couple share two youngsters. Tucci additionally has two youngsters together with his present spouse, Felicity Blunt, the sister of his The Satan Wears Prada co-star Emily Blunt, who he married in 2012.

“The children have been nice, nevertheless it was laborious for them,” Tucci continued, sharing that he had a “feeding tube for six months.”

“I might barely make it to the twins’ highschool commencement,” he defined.

Of most cancers, Tucci shared that it “makes you extra afraid and fewer afraid on the similar time. I really feel a lot older than I did earlier than I used to be sick. However you continue to need to get forward and get issues executed.”

In 2016, The Pretty Bones star opened up about whereas she was preventing most cancers, explaining to The Guardian that he feels he owes her an apology.

“We tried the whole lot we might do to save lots of her,” he stated. “I want that I might have executed extra and that I might have been along with her in the mean time she handed away. I couldn’t be in that room, as a result of I knew it will be so devastating that I wouldn’t be capable to maintain the children after.”

Earlier this 12 months, Tucci defined to CBS why .

“You by no means cease grieving,” Tucci stated. “It’s nonetheless laborious after 11 years. It’s nonetheless laborious. And it’ll all the time be laborious. She would by no means need any of us to ever wallow in that grief and let it take over our lives. She would by no means need that. She wasn’t like that.”