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Stanley Tucci is opening up about his cancer treatments, and how he lost something very precious to him: his appetite.
The 60-year-old actor revealed in September that he was diagnosed with cancer three years earlier, after a tumor was found at the base of his tongue.
He revealed in a wide-ranging interview with New York Times that everything he ate during that time tasted like, 'wet cardboard slathered with someone's excrement.'
Stanley speaks: Stanley Tucci is opening up about his cancer treatments, and how he lost something very precious to him: his appetite
He added that his biggest fear was losing his sense of taste, adding, 'I mean, if you can’t eat and enjoy food, how are you going to enjoy everything else?'
'It was hard because I could taste everything, but I couldn’t necessarily swallow,” he added, recalling a time he tried a Florentina steak.
'I had to chew it for 10 minutes to get it down my throat … [sometimes] I just had to get rid of the food,' he added.
Biggest fear: He added that his biggest fear was losing his sense of taste, adding, 'I mean, if you can’t eat and enjoy food, how are you
