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‘Chicago Med’ Star Marlyne Barrett Reveals She Has Uterine and Ovarian Cancer, Explains How Fans Have Brought Her ‘Courage’

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Ready to fight. Marlyne Barrett is speaking out about her health journey after being diagnosed with uterine and ovarian cancer earlier this year.The Chicago Med star, 44, told People on Tuesday, September 27, that she has quietly been battling cancer after doctors discovered a tumor on her uterus and left ovary in July.

She called herself an “extremely private person” but noted that she “felt a responsibility to tell my story.”Barrett’s diagnosis came three years after her NBC character, charge nurse Maggie Lockwood, battled breast cancer on Chicago Med.

The actress explained on Tuesday that filming that 2019 story line helped her with her own fight.“When my character went through breast cancer, I had a sea of people reach out to me through social media,” she recalled. “They brought me courage, and so I felt a sense of inevitability to meet their hearts where they met me.”The New York native — who shares 11-month-old twins Joshuah-Jireh and Ahnne-N’Urya with her husband, pastor Gavin Barrett — revealed that she has been trying to tap into her strength since learning she has cancer.“The initial experience was a shock, a shock to my womanhood,” Marlyne told the outlet, noting that she doesn’t have a family history of either of the cancers. “I didn’t believe them, but when they showed me the CT scan, I went, ‘Oh, my word.’ The first questions were, ‘Am I going to live?’ I just fell into my husband’s arms.

It still takes my breath away when I think about it.”The Wire alum was told she needed “aggressive” chemotherapy and an eventual hysterectomy, which Marlyne agreed to. “The best way I could experience was to meet it,” she said. “There’s no running from it because it’s my life.

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