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Stanley Tucci lost 30lbs when he battled tongue cancer.
The Devil Wears Prada star said the weight loss came from losing his sense of taste while going through chemotherapy, which was 'devastating.'
The Burlesque actor also said his 'taste buds and saliva glands were destroyed as was the inside of my mouth, and it's taken really two years to get back to almost normal.'
Slimmer: Stanley Tucci lost 30lbs when he battled tongue cancer three years ago
On GMA: The Devil Wears Prada star said the weight loss came from losing his sense of taste while going through chemotherapy, which was 'devastating'
The actor, 60, was discussing his battle with cancer on Good Morning America while promoting his new memoir Taste: My Life Through Food.
'It's mostly memoir,' the Devil Wears Prada star said. 'It's sort of peppered with recipes, excuse the pun.'
The actor recently revealed that the tumor in his tongue was too large to operate on, so he he to endure high-dose radiation and chemotherapy.
It was during this time that the actor lost his sense of taste.
When asked what it was like to go through that, Tucci replied 'It was devastating.'
