{"id":26525,"date":"2020-11-16T20:51:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T20:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=327341"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:14","slug":"emma-stone-motivated-to-help-others-after-her-mother-was-diagnosed-with-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/emma-stone-motivated-to-help-others-after-her-mother-was-diagnosed-with-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Stone Motivated to Help Others After Her Mother Was Diagnosed with Breast Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Emma Stone was just 19 years old<\/a> when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Now, at age 32, the actress says her mother\u2019s diagnosis is what pushed her to reach out and help others who were feeling alone and scared due to cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stone took some time to remember the day her mom, Krista Stone<\/a>, was diagnosed, saying, \u201cI was oddly stoic, the opposite of how I usually am. But it was terrifying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The young actress had just moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue an on-screen career at the time and decided to move back home to Arizona to support her mom through a double mastectomy and 18 months of chemotherapy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure, in private, Em lived in fear and anxiety,\u201d Krista says<\/a>. \u201cBut she really shifted into this [mode of] \u2018We\u2019re going to take care of this, and everything\u2019s going to be fine.’\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After her mother successfully made it through cancer, Stone became motivated to help others who are going through something similar.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Stone has been an ambassador for Gilda\u2019s Club<\/a>, a non-profit that supports people living with cancer, since 2012. The club was named after Gilda Radner, a Saturday Night Live<\/em> comedian who died of ovarian cancer in 1989 at the age of 42.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was 19 when my mom was diagnosed and the idea of trying to understand that, especially as a little kid\u2026Knowing that at Gilda\u2019s Club, kids can have fun and go to summer camp and enjoy time with other kids who understand what they\u2019re going through is absolutely incredible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Recently, Stone was awarded the Gilda Radner Award<\/a> for her work at Gilda\u2019s Club.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you, Emma, for taking time to think about other people who feel as lost and terrified as you and your mother did when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer. Your work has not gone unnoticed, and we hope you\u2019ll continue to assist others.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Elizabeth Nelson is a wordsmith, an alumna of Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, a four-leaf-clover finder, and a grammar connoisseur. She has lived in west Michigan since age four but loves to travel to new (and old) places. In her free time, she. . . wait, what\u2019s free time?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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