"Good Morning America" host Amy Robach is opening up about her battle with cancer, but she is also criticizing one major news outlet for producing a misleading headline about her struggle.
While Robach has been very public about her diagnosis from the start, and even received the very mammogram that diagnosed her live on "GMA" in October 2013 for Breast Cancer Awareness Month as a way to show support for her friend and co-host Robin Roberts, she wants people to know the real story. "It was the worst possible moment of my life," the 42-year-old news anchor told Entertainment Tonight about her diagnosis. "It was the most scared I have ever been in my life."
Since then, Robach has been through a double mastectomy and eight rounds of chemotherapy. While the battle wasn't easy to face, she was lucky to have such supportive people in her life. "The most beautiful part was how kind everyone was to me," she continued. "And just the smallest acts of kindness had such a huge impact. It was everything to me." There has been one particular magazine, though, that hasn't been so kind.
People magazine recently put out a very misleading headline about Robach's marriage to Andrew Shue on its cover. The headline to the exclusive story was "Cancer Nearly Destroyed My Marriage," and Robach was extremely hurt by the choice of words, according to Page Six. While on "The View" on Thursday promoting her new book "Better," which follows how her life changed after her breast cancer diagnosis, she made sure to let people know the truth about that interview.
"I just want to clarify something for anyone who might be picking up People magazine...there is a very hurtful headline," she said on the talk show. "Cancer did not nearly destroy my marriage...it made it stronger and better...that's not the message of my book."
"People [magazine] has been very supportive of Amy's story from the beginning," a friend of Amy's told Page Six. "But she was disappointed to be misquoted on the cover."
When People got wind of this, they quickly changed the online headline to "Cancer Made Our Marriage Stronger." "We're sorry to hear that Amy is upset," a rep for People said. "People has been proud to share her story with our audience, and we admire her bravery and honesty."
Robach continued to clear things up about her marriage while on the talk show. "All marriages are tough," she said. "Add cancer to that and it's really, really difficult. I would say that cancer tested our marriage, it challenged our marriage, but it made it stronger."
