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Olivia Munn on surviving breast cancer and helping save other women’s lives: Full interview

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3.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Actor Olivia Munn joins Kristen Welker for a “Meet the Moment” conversation and opens up about her battle with cancer and her journey through surrogacy. A breast cancer lifetime risk assessment score is available at magview.com/ibis-risk-calculator.

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Approximately one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime.

0:05.0

Actor Olivia Munn is one of them.

0:08.0

Two years ago, despite receiving a negative mammogram and clearing numerous medical tests,

0:13.0

Munn's doctor made a decision that she credits with saving her life,

0:17.0

administering a lifetime risk assessment test that led to a diagnosis of an aggressive form of breast cancer.

0:23.6

Soon after Mun underwent five surgeries in less than a year, including a double mastectomy and a procedure to remove her uterus.

0:32.6

Just months after, revealing her battle with breast cancer to the world, she and her husband comedian John Malaney welcomed their second child with the help of a surrogate.

0:42.3

And now Munn is returning to the screen, co-starring with John Hamm,

0:47.3

in the hit show, Your Friends and Neighbors on Apple TV Plus. Take a look.

0:52.3

Well, Keeley, since you asked, my husband was just murdered in the foyer of our house,

0:58.9

which is now a crime scene, which is why I'm staying at a hotel, which is why I need new products,

1:04.6

which is why, as you so acutely observed, I might be in dire need of retinal eye patches.

1:13.2

We were in the middle of a very nasty divorce, so there's a part of me, a disturbingly large one that is relieved that he's dead.

1:20.5

But, I mean, Keeley, I'm feeling guilty about that because he's the father of my kids, for God's

1:26.9

sake. I mean, what kind of person does

1:28.1

that make me I sat down with Mun for a meet-the-moment conversation about what

1:33.8

she calls her mission to help other women Olivia Munn welcome to meet the press

1:39.4

hi I'm so happy to be here what an honor thank you we are so happy to have you

1:43.4

here I'm so honored to be having this conversation with you.

1:46.0

Yeah. Thank you.

1:47.0

I mean, especially like talking to someone who really understands and we've, you know, walked the same walk together.

1:53.0

So it really meant a lot when I got the call.

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