- Four-time Super Bowl champion and NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw, diagnosed with cancer months before he went public about it in early October, came forward to explain his reluctance.
- “I couldn’t breathe,” he reflected. “That’s when everybody notices. ‘What’s wrong with him?’ Social media went, ‘Get rid of him. He needs to be off the air. He’s an embarrassment.’ And I was like, ‘Embarrassment? I got cancer.’”
- “I didn’t talk about it because I didn’t want pity,” Bradshaw said on NBC’s Today. “I didn’t talk about it because a lot of celebrities — unfortunately, I’m one of those — when they say this, I think the perception around America with all the millions of people is, ‘Aw, look at him. Bless his heart. He has cancer. Well, my husband died of cancer! My kids are….’ I didn’t want that. It took a long time before I told my family.”
