Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 386 – September 26, 2018

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BY EILEEN SHAPIRO CELEBRITY CORRESPONDENT A CANCER JOURNEY WITH Sandra Lee Known as the star of Food Network’s “Semi-Homemade Cooking” and as the longtime partner of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Sandra Lee has courageously and unselfishly shared a candid and intimate look into her battle with breast cancer in an HBO documentary set to air this fall. Lee’s hope is to make as many people as possible aware of screening and early detection and to let women benefit from her experience and perhaps even help them through their own tribulations. The documentary, “RX: Early Detection—A Cancer Journey With Sandra Lee,” premieres October 8 on HBO. I spoke in depth with Lee regarding her journey, why she decided to make the documentary and why the laws in this country must be changed. PHOTO CREDIT: COURTESY OF HBO INTERVIEW I think that no one really thinks they are going to get cancer until they get it. Well, there are blood tests and markers that they can put on you. You can monitor yourself. I’m on them now. You learn a lot. I am glad that you do these interviews, because you were probably more enlightened than most people are. I was oblivious. We don’t have it in our family; why the hell would I get it? There would be absolutely no reason why I would get it. So you find out that it’s the environment. Every single doctor will tell you that. There is not one doctor that I have interviewed that won’t tell you that. They don’t know what it is in the environment, but they know that it is a combination of things in our environment that are changing our cells. I’m sure the environment has a lot to do with it. My favorite question of all is: Did you change your diet? Do you finally eat healthy? I feel like saying, “Excuse me, I’ve always eaten healthy.” When it comes to the food pyramid, I eat exactly what that the pyramid is, between the meat and the eggs and the vegetables. What people don’t focus on is you’re eating that pyramid, but where is that food sourced from? Within that pyramid, what are the 497 pesticides—and I can give you that number, because it’s a real number—that are found on our fruits and vegetables? What is the hormone that they do not allow in Britain and the European Union, in Japan, in Australia, in Canada, that we are putting in our meat?
SANDRA LEE (LEFT) AND GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO (RIGHT), POST-SURGERY. PHOTO CREDIT: COURTESY OF HBO So I love these people who ask, “Are you semihomemaking it anymore?” Oh, yes, I’m semihomemaking it. I’m just very thoughtful that with everything I do, I know what the source is. When you go into the supermarket and buy food that says it’s organic, is it really organic? You have to be very thoughtful when these major organic grocery stores are bringing in their organics from China. What does that mean? Locally grown is always going to be the best. You really have to temper back all meat supplies; you really have to pull back on that. Your HBO documentary regarding your breast cancer experience will shortly be aired. What role did you have? I was the producer and Cathy Chermol Schrijver was the director, but really what happened was, I was starting a production company. I was diagnosed on a Friday, after a beautiful day of a beautiful photo shoot. Just the most beautiful hair and makeup and lighting in the world. When you walk off saying, I’m 48 years old and I still got it, life is good. So I walked off the set, and the doctor called me and said, “You have three different areas in one breast, all of them unrelated, and all of them malignant. You have breast cancer, and I didn’t want you to go through the weekend not knowing.” My best friend Jeffrey, my soulmate, was sitting next to me in a cab and burst out into tears. I just sat there stunned. When I hear bad news and I don’t know how to digest it, I slowly just stop. The doctor said I have a little bit of time, because it’s in the early stage, but you don’t have a lot of time, so we are going to have to figure out what to do. I decided I’d have to be as aggressive with cancer as cancer was aggressive with me. All of the doctors agreed, even the most conservative ones said, “If you were my wife, you would be getting a mastectomy.” So what you see in this documentary is me really going from all the doctor’s appointments. What we had was a little handheld camera. This is shot how documentaries used to be filmed. There is no lighting, no cinematography, there is no audio packs, there is none of that. It’s on a tiny little camera until we get into the hospital. Once we get into the operating room, we have real cameras in the operating room. So I walked to the operating room, because I wasn’t getting on a gurney into the operating room. I walked in with my head held high.
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