Rene Zellweger admits to a cancer scare that threatened to end her career just on the heels of the Jerry Maguire success.

She admits to having found two small lumps in her right breast during a self examination in 1996 and decided to get them checked out.

She recalls:

“I thought, ‘Oh, I know what you do now. You find out what that is. So I went and found out.”  I was like, ‘Let’s just have it over with. Get in there, stab away, get your little crunchy bit or whatever you’re looking for, put it in the mail and we’ll call it a day.’  “Then I had a weird couple of days waiting for the phone call.”

The actress lost her grandmother to cancer in 1969 and this experience made her much more aware:

“I pay attention, I do go get my check-ups.”

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