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Stanley Tucci Reveals He Was Diagnosed With Cancer 3 Years Ago
Stanley Tucci revealed that he was diagnosed with cancer three years ago and is currently in remission — more than a decade after his first wife died of breast cancer.
The "Hunger Games" actor appeared in an interview with Virgin Atlantic's in-flight magazine, Vera, in which he got candid about his health. He said that he was diagnosed with a tumor at the base of his tongue.
"It was too big to operate, so they had to do high-dose radiation and chemo," Tucci, 60, told Vera. "I'd vowed I'd never do anything like that, because my first wife died of cancer, and to watch her go through those treatments for years was horrible."
Stanley Tucci was married to his first wife, Kate Spath-Tucci, for 14 years before her death. Patrick McMullan/Getty ImagesTucci was married to his first wife, Kate Spath-Tucci, for 14 years and had three children before she died in April 2009. He later married Felicity Blunt, the sister of actress Emily Blunt, in 2012 and had two children.
Tucci told Vera that the experience was challenging for his five children.
"I had a feeding tube for six months. I could barely make it to the twins' highschool graduation," Tucci told Vera. Fortunately, Tucci added that the cancer is unlikely to return, and he is in remission.
"[Cancer] makes you more afraid and less afraid at the same time. I feel much older than I did before I was sick. But you still want to get ahead and get things done."
During an interview with CBS Sunday Morning in January 2021, Tucci opened up about his first wife and dealing with grief.
"You never stop grieving," Tucci told CBS Sunday. "It's still hard after 11 years. It's still hard. And it will always be hard. But you can't let it ... And she would never want any of us to ever wallow in that grief and let it take over our lives. She would never want that. She wasn't like that."
How To Make Stanley Tucci's Sausage And Shells Pasta For New Year's Parties? Recipe And More Details Explored
Actor Stanley Tucci was diagnosed with oral cancer in 2017 and had to take an arduous journey for his treatment. However, during that period, he was not afraid of death but the fear of losing his taste, as revealed to The New York Times.
For the recipe, Tucci used minced onion, garlic, fennel, fennel seeds, ground Italian sausage, and a homemade tomato (marinara) sauce. He put all the ingredients in a pan and sautéed them. After that, he added the pasta and cheese. He used the large conchiglie pasta for the dish.
If one looks at the actor's social media platforms, one would find numerous posts outlining exquisite recipes that are unique because they barely follow the logistics of cooking like measurement, time, and the necessity of maximum ingredients.
Tucci's special recipe for pasta lovers is also mentioned in his 2024 book What I Ate in One Year. It must be mentioned that Tucci wrote the book not like any other book but more like a journal. The book details his gastronomical experience spanning over a year with each day as a mirror to the actor's food memories. The Sausage and Shells pasta was his meal on May 9.
That day, his wife, literary agent Felicity Blunt was not at home in the evening as she was out for work. Stanley Tucci prepared chipolata sausages for his kids in the new air fryer which he called an 'amazing contraption.' He complemented their meal with rice and peas.
Interestingly, he mentioned having three helpings of the dish, which he was not proud of. The actor wrote:
"I had three helpings at nine p.M. Not wise but delicious."
With New Year's Eve around the corner, this recipe is worth a try to impress your guests.
Stanley Tucci might have an abundance of pasta recipes in his mind. As mentioned, the Sausage and Shell pasta requires tomato sauce but if you are not a big fan, this recipe is the one you can make with some fresh tomatoes. The actor shared this recipe with YouTube channel Williams Sonoma on September 16, 2023. At the onset, he said:
"So, I am gonna make a really simple pasta spaghetti with fresh tomato, onion, garlic, basil."
Like any other pasta recipe, the first step is to boil the pasta for nine to twelve minutes depending on the quantity. In a pan, Stanley Tucci added some olive oil, garlic, and sliced onions and sauteed them. After a while, he put the tomatoes in and added a pinch of salt followed by some basil.
He strained the already-boiled pasta poured them into the pan and then added some pasta water. Tucci tossed the ingredients and poured some olive oil but that's optional. That's all you need to prepare this dish!
In an interview with The Guardian, it was mentioned that his daughter Emilia eats only pasta and cheese for dinner. However, this presumably may not be a joyful moment for Stanley Tucci who has a deep love for different delicacies.
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Stanley Tucci Said He Couldn't Always Swallow Food While Filming 'Searching For Italy' And Recovering From Cancer
After undergoing radiation and chemotherapy to get rid of a tumor at the base of his tongue, Stanley Tucci says he temporarily lost his appetite and ability to taste or swallow food.
The "Hunger Games" actor revealed his cancer diagnosis in an interview with Virgin Atlantic's in-flight magazine, Vera, that was published in September, Insider previously reported. He told the magazine that the tumor was "too big to operate" and that he "had a feeding tube for six months" during the process.
Though he went through the treatment around three years ago, Tucci told The New York Times in an interview that he was still feeling the side effects in the fall of 2019 when he began filming his CNN travel show, "Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy."
Tucci told The Times that his sense of smell and taste had come back before filming, but he couldn't always swallow.
"I had to chew it for 10 minutes to get it down my throat," he said, describing a moment in filming where he was eating a Tuscan dish, steak Florentine. But for the times when swallowing was completely out of the question, "I just had to get rid of the food," he said.
Despite his inability to fully and consistently eat food, he said there was no question in his mind that he'd carry out making this show. "I've wanted to tell for a long time the story of Italy and the disparate cuisine in every region," he told The Times.
Tucci wrote about his experience with cancer in his new book, "Taste: My Life Through Food," which is out on Tuesday.
"It was horrible," Tucci told The Times of his treatment.
He said that after about a week of the treatment, his mouth was filled with ulcers, and "anything he ate tasted like wet cardboard 'slathered with someone's excrement.'"
The "Devil Wears Prada" actor said he wasn't afraid of dying, but he was afraid of losing his sense of taste. "I mean, if you can't eat and enjoy food," he said, "how are you going to enjoy everything else?"
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