Harry connick jr wife cancer

Behaving differently may make your partner feel more aware of the cancer," MacMillan Cancer Support says.

"It can help to ask your partner what support they would like and find useful. The doctors all say that after the five-year mark, things look optimistic, so we’re starting to feel pretty good.”

“It’s not something that’s just going to go away like it never happened,” adds Goodacre.

"It's taken a lot out of my self-confidence."

Thankfully, Connick Jr. was there for Goodacre during her time of emotional and physical struggles. However, the side effects of the drug can cause weight gain. “It broke my heart,” she shares.

Although the mother of three did not have to undergo chemotherapy, her treatment has been grueling.

“The lumpectomy didn’t come back with clean margins,” she explains.

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Seeing a man honor the love he has for his wife is heartwarming no matter the circumstances, but it’s lovely to see Connick Jr. enjoying such a wonderful milestone after supporting Goodacre through her cancer battle.

Harry Connick Jr. Supports His Wife During Cancer

Jill Goodacre’s breast cancer journey began in October 2012 with a routine yearly mammogram that came back clear.

“They said, ‘Okay, looks good.

But during the sonogram, something was detected. She explained that she has been taking the prescription drug Tamoxifen, which which modulates estrogen levels to help prevent the development of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, for the past five years. "I wasn’t going to let her see that, but I was.

And then radiation absolutely wiped me out. "It’s taken a lot out of my self-confidence."

"It’s a part of how the cancer and the treatment impacted her, and it was a real issue, even though she will always be the most beautiful woman in the world," Harry said.

Today, the couple is remaining positive about the future.

"We wanted to be well on the other side of things before we told everybody," Jill said."The doctors all say that after the five-year mark, things look optimistic, so we’re starting to feel pretty good.”

She added: "It’s not something that’s just going to go away like it never happened.

She immediately underwent a lumpectomy, which was followed by radiation.

However, she explained the most difficult point was having to tell her three daughters -- 21-year-old Georgia, 21, Sara Kate, 20, and Charlotte, 15 -- about her diagnosis.

"It broke my heart," Jill said.

Harry, 50, felt especially impacted by the devastating news, as he lost his mum to ovarian cancer when he was just 13.

"I was scared I was going to lose her, absolutely," the singer said.

It’s taken a lot out of my self-confidence,” she says.

“It’s a part of how the cancer and the treatment impacted her, and it was a real issue, even though she will always be the most beautiful woman in the world,” adds Connick Jr.

Now, as she approaches the five-year mark of remission, Goodacre is looking forward to stopping Tamoxifen soon and preparing to tell the world what few outside her family knew.

“It wasn’t like we were superstitious, like if we said something about being in the clear we’d somehow jinx it,” Goodacre says.

"I’ve always been a pretty fit person, and so to be just rounder and heavier and not to really be able to do much about it. “I’ll always be a little nervous, always having to get checked, always hoping it doesn’t come back.”

On Thursday’s episode of Harry, the couple will candidly discuss her cancer journey and the day she was diagnosed — “It’s one of the hardest days of my life,” she recalls — in a heart-to-heart discussion.

“All I wanted to do was grow old with you and have as many years as possible as I could with you,” Connick Jr.

tells Goodacre in a PEOPLE exclusive sneak peek of the interview.

Goodacre tells him, “You always used to say that: ‘I just want to grow old with you.’ ”

“It’s true,” Connick Jr. says. That’s been hard," the former Victoria's Secret model admitted.