“It’s a sneaky disease.
But I’m fine and dandy now.
And I’m lucky to be alive.”
Blythe Danner reveals she privately battled the same kind of oral cancer that killed her husband.Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
Paltrow was diagnosed with the same condition in 1999.
He died in 2002 while traveling through Italy to celebrate his daughterGwyneth Paltrow’s 30th birthday.
“I was obviously very shocked,” Gwyneth recalled of when she eventually found out.
“It was scary.
And it felt really eerie because it was so similar [to my dad’s].”
Danner was semi-recently seen on screen as the goddess Demeter in Starz’sAmerican Gods.
She’s also the voice of Grandma Jones on the Netflix animated kids seriesRidley Jones.
