‘The Guiding Light’ Star Kim Zimmer Has Real-Life Illness That Her Character Faced
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deadline.comKim Zimmer portrayed Reva Shayne on the CBS daytime drama The Guiding Light from 1983 to 1990, returning in 1995 until the show’s final episode on Sept.
8, 2009. In 2006, a storyline had Shayne diagnosed with breast cancer. Now, Zimmer faces the same crisis in real life. “I was diagnosed with breast cancer on Nov.
6,” she revealed on the special Daytime Stands Up: A Benefit for Stand Up To Cancer – We All Have a Story, that streamed live Thursday.
Zimmer has undergone a mastectomy and expects to have her last chemotherapy infusion on May 21. During the streaming event, Zimmer thanked her family and friends for their support, admitting that she “would have fallen apart,” if not for them.
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