Former Saturday Night Live star Victoria Jackson has revealed the results of her devastating cancer diagnosis in a heart-wrenching video posted to Instagram and YouTube.
In a nearly eight-minute long video, which she titled, ‘Is the Cancer Back?,’ Jackson, 65, said that she has less than three years to live after doctors discovered an inoperable tumour in her windpipe.
“They cannot operate and cut out the marble in my chest that is laying on my windpipe, and eventually would suffocate me to death,” Jackson said, letting out a nervous laugh.
She said her physicians are going to give her a “magic pill,” but told her followers that it will only help her live for a few more years.
“They’re giving me a magic pill. It’s going to be delivered to my front door within the next 12 hours,” she added. “It’s based on Ribociclib, and it will shrink the marble, hopefully.”
According to the Mayo Clinic, Ribociclib is a drug that blocks the growth of cancer cells.
Jackson shared her prognosis, saying: “I looked up the pill on Google and it says people who take this have 32.6 months to live — something like that … I think that’s great.”
But the Marriage Retreat actress grew emotional as she said that she’s “had a fantastic life,” before listing off some milestones she lives long enough to see.
“I’d like to see my grandson born — his name is Jimmy — in October, and get to know him a little. And I would like to see my daughter Aubrey have a baby,” Jackson said.
She recalled a recent experience when she thought she “heard God say, ‘Ready to come home?’”
“It was the weirdest thing, and I thought, ‘Is that my imagination or is that God?’ The Bible says, ‘My sheep can hear my voice and I know them and they follow me.’ And he didn’t say it like, ‘You’re coming home now.’ He just kind of said it like we were hanging out,” she said.
In the caption to her video on Instagram, she wrote: “I have 34.8 months to live if I don’t get hit by a meteor, shot by a MAGA hater, get COVID or WWIII breaks out.”
Earlier in the week, she shared footage of herself just before getting the CT scan that revealed her terrible diagnosis.
“CT scan to see if breast cancer has spread,” she wrote. “In a musical, I would now break out in song and start tap dancing on the CT machine!”
Jackson appeared on SNL from 1986 to 1992 and was known for her appearances on Weekend Update and her impersonations of Roseanne Barr, Sally Struthers and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
After leaving the late-night program, she went on to star in episodes of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, The X-Files, Touched by an Angel and The Weird Al Show.
Jackson was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016. After she shared her latest update, her fans praised her positive attitude in the wake of her devastating news.
One follower wrote, “I wish you all the best Victoria, you have brought much laughter into our lives,” with another optimistically adding, “Don’t let statistics determine your outcome. There are too many variables. Many people go on to live well beyond the time frames they are given. You are going to be the best grandma!”