‘IEWU’ Author Colleen Hoover Shares Health Update amid Her Cancer Diagnosis

Colleen Hoover is opening up about her health after sharing her cancer diagnosis.

Less than a week after revealing she was undergoing radiation therapy at Texas Oncology, the best-selling author, 46, shared a post on Facebook saying that her previous social media posts about her diagnosis had been misconstrued. 

“Just clarification because of some misleading clickbait making it sound like I’m on my deathbed or something, but I do not have cancer anymore,” Hoover wrote. “I was diagnosed sometime last year, had surgery that was successful, just finished radiation yesterday.”

“I am done and good and all is well and has been well. My doctors doctored. Hell yeah,” she concluded. 

The It Ends with Us author first spoke about having cancer on her social media in December.  Without revealing her exact diagnosis in the post, reposted by Katyinkc, she explained that her cancer had been removed through surgery.

She noted that her ongoing treatment would include radiation, but not chemotherapy.

Hoover said she was having “recurring” health issues while filming Reminders of Him, her forthcoming movie adaptation, which is set to be released this year. “I continued to put off until the movie was finished,” she wrote.

“So while it felt huge and scary for a bit, and I had to miss out on the Regretting You premiere and some other important career and personal moment, I just wasn’t ready to share with anyone until I knew what the outcome would be,” she said.

Reminders of Him is set to hit theaters on March 13, while her latest book, Woman Down, hit shelves on Jan. 13

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Hoover shared a candid health update on her Instagram Stories, alongside a photo of her wearing a hospital gown, a day before the release of the novel. 

“Second to last day of radiation,” she wrote on Jan. 12. “I wish I could blame my hair and facial expressions on @Texas.Oncology, but they’ve been great. Hope you never need them, but highly recommend them.”

A few days before, Hoover had shared that her cancer was “likely environmental/lifestyle” caused, such as a “lack of exercise, poor diet and stress” as a visit to the geneticist ruled out family genetics, HPV and excessive hormones. 

“I’m happy and grateful to be alive but I hate vegetables,” Hoover said in her Jan. 9 Facebook post. “I hate when I have to get off the couch. I hate sweating. I hate when science is right.”

“If you see me at the gym, don’t even tell me good job,” she added. “If you see me at a restaurant eating grilled chicken and drinking water, I’m probably real mad about it.”