‘I'm going to face this’: ‘Chicago Med’ star Marlyne Barrett reveals she has uterine and ovarian cancer
If you are a religious watcher of 'Chicago Med' then you would remember the time when Marlyne Barett's Maggie Campbell gets a mammogram and learns that she has metastatic adenocarcinoma or breast cancer but is later cured and she marries former cancer patient Ben Campbell? However, in her real life, she was silently battling cancer as well. The 44-year-old's doctors discovered a football-sized tumor on her uterus and left ovary in July.
The series actor recently revealed her diagnosis to People. The actress who has 11-month-old twins Joshuah-Jireh and Ahnne-N'Urya with her husband, pastor Gavin Barrett, said when she was starting to get ready to work she started feeling gnarly and exhausted after she had her hernia removed. She said, "I had this accumulation of fluid [in my abdomen] that I couldn't shake." "I looked like I was nine months pregnant. And I also had shortness of breath, but no pain, which was interesting." The actress remembers questioning the longevity of her life thinking "am I going to live?" Read more to know how the tough-as-a-cookie Barett is taking one day at a time.
