Katie Couric’s daughters shared their reactions to their mom’s diagnosis during an episode of her “Next Question” podcast. Couric informed her youngest daughter Carrie, a journalist, first. Carrie woke up to a missed call from her mom and a “call me” text. Afterward, they hopped on FaceTime where Couric informed her of the news. “It was scary,” shared Ellie. “She told me that everything was going to be fine. I think she prefaced it that way.” Ellie added, “I felt worried. But I think she understood from the get-go that she had access to amazing doctors, that it was super early and that she — in all likelihood — was going to be okay. Ellie, who works as a TV writer, also felt frightened. “There were certain trigger words used. Radiation was hard to hear. Even the mention of chemotherapy and imagining mom losing her hair was really scary to me.”
Unfortunately, Katie Couric and her family have a tragic history with cancer. Couric’s first husband — and the father of her two daughters Ellie Monahan and Carrie Monahan —Jay Monahan died after a battle with colon cancer at the age of 42, according to People. Jay’s untimely passing is likely one reason Couric was nervous to tell her daughters about her breast cancer diagnosis. “I told them, but I was very reassuring, but I saw on their faces,” Couric shared on The Today Show. “You know, it’s just hard to deliver that news, no matter how you do it.”
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