Amanda Peet: 'Creating a Community Around Breast Cancer Is Probably Helpful'

Amanda Peet: 'Creating a community around breast cancer is probably helpful'

Amanda Peet was diagnosed with breast cancer in the fall of 2025, while her parents, Penny and Charles, were dying in hospice care.

Amanda Peet says she was diagnosed with cancer while her parents were in hospice

Actress Amanda Peet has revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer last fall while caring for both of her parents in hospice, she wrote in an essay published Saturday in the New Yorker.

EXCLUSIVE: Amanda Peet and Hoda Kotb Connect Over Surviving Breast Cancer on TODAY

Hoda Kotb and Amanda Peet found common ground over a topic that has deeply affected both of them during a live interview on TODAY on March 26

Amanda Peet Shares the "Hard Part" of Telling Her 3 Kids About Her Breast Cancer Diagnosis

The actress was diagnosed around Labor Day 2025, when both of her parents were in hospice care.Amanda Peet on February 3, 2026Credit: GettyThe GistAmanda Peet wrote a vulnerable essay for The New Yorker published on March 21 where she shared that she was diagnosed with breast cancer while both of her parents were in hospice care on opposite coasts.Peet received her diagnosis around Labor Day last year.In a subsequent interview with E! News, the …

Amanda Peet’s Breast Cancer Diagnosis Reveal Is More Devastating Than Anyone Realized

Amanda Peet has been carrying a lot of weight. On March 21, the 54-year-old actress published a deeply personal essay in The New Yorker titled “My Season of Ativan,” and in it she disclosed something that had not been public knowledge, she was diagnosed with Stage I breast cancer in the fall of 2025. The essay did not simply announce a diagnosis and reassure readers that everything was fine. It described, in meticulous and sometimes wrenching de…