Julia Louis-Dreyfus felt “immortal” before her breast cancer fight. The ‘Veep’ actress, 63, was diagnosed with the disease in September 2017, with the news delivered by her doctor who called her to tell her she had stage 2 breast cancer the day after she won her sixth consecutive Emmy award for her role in the HBO political satire. She told presenter Hoda Kotb, 59, on the ‘Today’ show as the pair discussed their respective fights with the illness: “I think that when you’re younger, there’s kind of this arrogance of youth, of feeling like.

.. you do feel immortal.

“And then all of a sudden you’re bumped up against that and you’re like, ‘Oh, wait a minute. This, at some point, is going to end.’ “You don’t go through life thinking about that very much.

So it puts into sharp focus priorities. It did for me.” Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion.

The actress added about how the diagnosis changed her perspective on life: “I made more of an attitude shift about what my priorities were and how to sort of go forth.” Julia previously told WSJ. Magazine the first thing she did when her doctor told her she had cancer was double over with laughter.

She said: “I mean, it felt like it was written. It felt like it was a horrible black comedy. And then it sort of morphed into crying hysterically.

“You just simply don’t consider it for yourself, you know, that’s sort of the arrogance of human beings. �.