'Jeopardy' Host Alex Trebek Shared How His Cancer Treatment Is Going
In a video from the set ofHe said he wanted to be honest about his health not only out of a commitment to his “policy of being open and transparent” with viewers, but because he didn’t want his supporters “reading or hearing some overblown or inaccurate reports regarding my health.”
Trebek told Roberts he timed the reveal of diagnosis with the end of the show’s season so he could use the summer months to “recuperate and get strong again.”, Trebek said he’s “fighting thought it.”“I just take it as it comes. It’s no big deal,” Trebek said, before going into more detail about his treatment, as well as how he pushes through the unpleasant moments.
“I go in and I sit down. I joke with the nurses and I’m there for an hour and a half while they inject all this stuff into me then I go home and I have a good day and then the next day for no reason that I can fathom, it turns south on me,” he said. Trebek added that it’s just something he has to deal with and he’s taking care of the issue “chemically and spiritually and those are positives.”
The star said he hopes everything turns out well and that he’s “back on the air with original programming come this September.”Michael Blackmon is an entertainment reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
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