Amanda Peet provided a positive update on her health following her breast cancer diagnosis.
During a Tuesday, March 31, appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, a fan query enquired as to how the Your Friends & Neighbors actress, 54, was feeling.
“Well thanks Eric, I’m doing great,” Peet told Cohen, 57, in response to the query. The fan also quizzed Peet, who revealed her 2025 diagnosis in a Recent Yorker essay published on March 21, on beneficial advice she’d received in consequence of her diagnosis.
“The perfect piece of recommendation, I’d say, is ‘Enjoy it while we’re here,’ Peet responded, to which Cohen agreed before adding, “That’s something to live by day by day.”
Peet’s essay detailed that she was informed of her diagnosis “last fall” after undergoing what she had presumed can be a “routine scan” that examined her breast health. “For a few years, I’ve been told that I actually have ‘dense’ and ‘busy’ breasts — not as a compliment but as a warning that they require extra monitoring,” she wrote before revealing that her physician “didn’t like the way in which something looked on the ultrasound.”
After undergoing a biopsy, Peet recalled how her sample was walked over and hand-delivered to a pathology department for review. “That’s after I knew,” Peet wrote, noting that her doctor shared news of her stage 1 breast cancer results the next day. “The tumor ‘appeared’ to be small, but I would wish an MRI after the vacation weekend to find out ‘the extent of disease.’”
The MRI showed a second mass that was ultimately benign, which meant that Peet was not advised to undergo a double mastectomy or chemotherapy. “I’d only need a lumpectomy and radiation,” she wrote. Once her radiation course had accomplished, Peet returned a transparent scan in January.
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Later that month, Peet’s mother, who was in hospice care, died.
Tragically, Peet’s father died in 2025 amid Peet’s cancer ordeal. She reflected on the time in her essay, writing, “As soon as my dad’s corpse was out of sight, I used to be free to panic about my cancer again.”
In an interview with E! News, published on Tuesday, March 24, Peet opened up about sharing her diagnosis along with her children. (Peet and husband David Benioff, the cocreator of Game of Thrones, share daughters Frances, 19, and Molly, 15, and son, Henry, 11.)
“They’ve been great,” she told the outlet. “I definitely needed to get myself together before including them. The hard part was realizing that nothing is for certain and there was going to be no perfect time to inform them.”