Oh No! Kate Walsh Was Diagnosed With a Brain Tumor

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Kate Walsh revealed to Cosmopolitan that she had a benign meningioma the size of a lemon removed in 2015, but thankfully she is fully recovered. However, she called it a “wakeup call.”

She said she started feeling exhausted in early 2015: “I had been working insane hours, maybe 80 hours a week, and also working out really hard, so I wasn’t surprised,” she said to the magazine. “I figured, okay, I’ll change up my workout routine, I’ll go back to mellow stuff like hiking.”

Her pilates instructor noticed her right side was dipping, and would swerve into the right lane while driving. “It felt like aphasia, but it wasn’t just not being able to find words; I would lose my train of thought, I wasn’t able to finish sentences, and that was when I got really alarmed,” she said.

“The words ‘brain tumor’ were never in my zeitgeist,” she explained. “I went in for the MRI, and you know it’s serious when they don’t even wait, they’re like ‘hey, the radiologist wants to see you.’ And she starts to say, ‘Well, it looks like you have a very sizable brain tumor’ — and I just left my body. My assistant had driven me there, and I had to go get her so that she could take notes, because I was gone. It was never anything I would have imagined.”

She continued: “I love to work hard and do 800 things at once, and this was a really amazing lesson in just submitting to the process of healing. I did exactly what the doctors told me to do, and asked tons of questions when I had them, and got lots of support, and just took my time.”

Read more at Cosmo.