Alicia Witt hoped not to lose hair amid cancer battle 'so it could be her choice' to make diagnosis public
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Alicia Witt is all excited to see her hair grow back after completing her chemotherapy. In her latest Instagram post, the 'Modern Persuasion' star shared a series of selfies with her fans and wrote about what it means. Witt chose to keep her hair while battling cancer because she wanted to keep the news of the diagnosis to herself and share it at her will. "I don't mean for this to be a vanity post! but -I do want to share because I know that there are a lot of you here who have gone through the same," Witt wrote. "And I'm honestly feeling pretty elated about the state of my hair right now."
She continued, "When I completed my treatment for breast disease back in March, I had worn cold caps so that I was able to keep enough of my hair to continue working through my treatments (I did 2 jobs during that time). What a gift to have that privilege so that it could be my choice to share when I wanted to but still, about 45 per cent or so did fall out." The multi-talented star who is also a well-known singer, and pianist shared that using hair thickening products has helped her quite a lot, "I feel this works, and works big time and quickly. The hair I had lost was already long since coming in by then, of course, but it has started growing much more quickly, and much more of it!" Witt wrote said. "I believe this would help anyone who's looking to thicken their hair - regardless of whether you'd gone thru chemo-related hair loss," reports People.
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Witt went public about her battle with cancer in a June post, where she shared snaps revealing that she completed her chemotherapy two months back, and was all elated. "Just a little over 2 months ago, i had my last round of chemical therapy prior to my mastectomy," Witt had written. In post, the 47-year-old can be seen celebrating with doctor and medical staff the end of her treatments, while holding her official certificate.
"Although we didn't yet know for absolute certain until after the mastectomy that the disease was completely healed from my left breast, this marked the end of my carboplatin/taxotere, + herceptin/perjeta (the latter two are immunotherapies which will continue, per protocol for HER2+, through the end of this year)," Witt continued. She didn’t forget to thank her medical team, “I had a tiny crew of human angels surrounding me for all 6 treatments, not only keeping my spirits high, but tending to and changing.”
