Robin Roberts’ partner Amber Laign has temporarily put her breast cancer treatment on hold due to “complications with chemotherapy”.
The Good Morning America host revealed the news in a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, explaining, “They’re working on it. We’ll find out. The prognosis is still very good.”
She added: “I’m just grateful that her spirits have been lifted. It’s been a bit tough there lately, when – because she just wanted to get through it and have that wrench thrown in our way – but I could tell her, like most people [who] going through cancer, that happens.”
Roberts announced in February that Laign, who she has been dating for nearly two decades, was diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2021 and had surgery in January.
Roberts, 61, said at the time Laign had helped her through her own breast cancer battle and now it’s her time to be there for her.
Robin Roberts’ partner Amber Laign is temporarily stopping her treatment for breast cancer.robinrobertsgma/Instagram
Roberts and Laign have been together for 17 years. Getty Images for Shawn Carter Fo
“I will be away from ‘GMA’ from time to time,” she said before asking fans for prayers.
Roberts was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) – a disease in which blood-forming cells in the bone marrow become abnormal – in 2012. She was then undergoing a bone marrow transplant and was in the hospital for a month.
“I felt like I was dying,” she told People in 2013. “I couldn’t eat or drink. I couldn’t even get out of bed.”
Laign was diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2021.robinrobertsgma/Instagram
Roberts, who is currently promoting her new book, Brighter by the Day, told ET in her interview that she turned to her own words for advice.
“I was struggling and then I was like, ‘Robin, you have this book. You talk to people about their valleys and how to get out of them, so why not just listen to your own words?’” she said.
“It’s human nature…you know, ‘why me?’ and then I thought, ‘Why not me? Why not me?’” she admitted. “I can handle it. I have the power. I’ve been through it. I can help Amber. She’s helping me, so I was like, ‘Why me?’ into ‘Why Not Me?’”