Actor Ben Stiller revealed on Tuesday that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer two years ago.
While speaking on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show, the 50-year-old, Emmy-Award winning actor opened up about his battle with cancer for the first time. "It came out of the blue for me. I had no idea," he explained. "At first, I didn't know what was gonna happen. I was scared. It just stopped everything in your life because you can't plan for a movie because you don't know what's gonna happen."
Stiller said he finally decided to speak to the public about his diagnosis to encourage others to take the prostate-specific antigen test that he still takes every six months.
“I feel like the test saved my life," he told host Howard Stern. He also said the first people he told were his children, then his close friend, actor Robert De Niro, who beat prostate cancer several years ago.
"The first thing I did when I got diagnosed was get on the internet to try to learn,” he said, “I saw De Niro had had it. I called him right away.”
Stills says he 100 percent appreciates life more.
