NEW YORK – She has incurable cancer, but Valerie Harper says she’s not ready to say good-bye and she’s keeping herself open to a miracle.
In her first TV interview since disclosing her diagnosis last week, the 1970s sitcom star tells the “Today” show’s Savannah Guthrie that “‘incurable’ is a tough word.” People “hear it as this death sentence,” she explains.
But Harper insists she’s “more than hopeful. I have an intention to live each moment fully.”
“I’m not dying until I do,” she says. “I promise I won’t.”
Harper, 73, has been diagnosed with a rare brain cancer and told she has as little as three months to live. She got the news less than two months ago during her book tour for her new memoir, “I, Rhoda.”