The tennis legend spoke to Piers Morgan for TalkTV in an interview that is set to air on Tuesday Night. She said that she is pretty much done with her treatments for throat and breast cancer and that she has been declared cancer-free.
“As far as they know I’m cancer-free,” Navratilova told Piers Morgan.
“I still need to do the right breast probably with radiation but only for a couple of weeks and that’s more preventative than anything else.”
She was first diagnosed back in November 2022 when she noticed an enlarged lymph node in her neck. The diagnosis was shared with the public in January 2023.
At the time, she said that she was in total panic following her diagnosis.
“I was in a total panic for three days thinking I may not see next Christmas,” she said.
“The bucket list came into my mind of all the things I wanted to do. And this may sound really shallow, but I was like, ‘Okay, which kick-ass car do I really want to drive if I live like a year?’”
The 18-time Grand Slam winner also had a hard time with the treatment.
“That was the hard part because the first week was both chemo and radiation at the same time,” she said.
“When you start feeling lousy, you’re not sure if it’s from the chemo or the proton. I didn’t really feel the proton until week three, but then you get a sore mouth and your throat starts closing.”
“Everything’s swollen and very uncomfortable, and the proton makes your saliva weird. You don’t really taste things the right way.”
“Chemo does the same thing to your throat, but then it makes it dry. So you’re just hit from all ends, and I don’t think the doctors do a very good job of telling you how the s*** is going to hit the fan.”
This was not the first time that Navratilova’s had a brush with cancer. She also had breast cancer 13 years ago.