‘SNL’ alum Victoria Jackson’s cancer returns with ‘inoperable’ tumor, given only a few years to live
Victoria Jackson revealed she likely has about three years to live after her doctors broke the news that her cancer had returned.
The “Saturday Night Live” alum uploaded an eight-minute-long Instagram video this week, in which she shared that her disease is inoperable because “doctors cannot … cut out the marble in my chest that is laying on my windpipe, and eventually would suffocate me to death.”
Jackson, 65, said that her medical team has given her a “magic pill” that contains a cancer growth blocker that will “shrink the marble, hopefully.” The comedian shared that other patients that have taken the treatment have “something like” “32.6 months to live.”
“I think that’s great,” she said, maintaining an optimistic outlook.
A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine says Robociclib, the treatment she’s receiving, “has a significant overall survival benefit” in certain patients with advanced breast cancer.
The “Marriage Retreat” actress gave herself a longer lifespan in the caption, joking that she could have closer to 35 months to live if she doesn’t “get hit by a meteor, shot by a MAGA hater, get Covid again or WWIII breaks out.”
Despite the heartbreaking news, Jackson didn’t fall into the macabre, telling her 45,000 followers, “I’ve had a fantastic life.”
Jackson, who once tried to secure a seat on a county commission in Tennessee, first revealed her breast cancer diagnosis in 2016. Nine years later, the “marble” showed up on her lung.
Jackson appeared as a cast member on “SNL” from 1986 to 1992. She quickly became known for her features on the “Weekend Update” segment as well as her impersonations of Roseanne Barr, Sally Struthers and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
