Alex Trebek Says He Almost Gave Up On Life During Cancer Battle

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Alex Trebek is opening up about his cancer battle and the Jeopardy star revealed that he almost gave up on life.

Trebek shared an emotional video to his fans on his one-year milestone of surviving his diagnosis,

“I’d be lying if I said the journey had been an easy one,” Trebek said in the video. “I joked with friends that the cancer won’t kill me, the chemo treatments will.”

“There were moments of great pain, days where certain bodily functions no longer functioned, and sudden massive attacks of great depression that made me wonder if it was really worth fighting on,” he stated.

Despite being depressed and no longer wanting to fight, he realized that he must, adding that it would be a “betrayal of my wife and soulmate Jean, who has given her all to help me survive. It would have been a betrayal of other cancer patients who have looked to me as an inspiration and a cheerleader of sorts of the value of living and hope.

Trebek ended his message by revealing that his oncologist recently gave him a positive message about the two-year survival rate, which is just seven percent, but, he said that Trebek would be around to celebrate that. “And you know something,” Trebek added, “if I, no, if we — because so many of us are involved in this same situation — if we take it just one day at a time with a positive attitude, anything is possible. I’ll keep you posted.”

Take a look at the video below!

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