Alicia Witt Wanted to Keep Her Hair amid Cancer Battle 'So It Could Be My Choice' to Share Diagnosis

Mar. 15, 2025

Alicia Wittis feeling good about her hair growth following her chemotherapy treatments for cancer.

On Friday, the 47-year-old actress shared two selfies onInstagramproudly showing off how much her hair has grown back. The star admitted that she was originally hoping not to lose her hair amid her battle with cancer because she wanted to share her diagnosis on her own terms.

“I don’t mean for this to be a vanity post! but - I do want to share because I know that there are a lot of you here who have gone through the same,” Witt wrote. “And I’m honestly feeling pretty elated about the state of my hair right now.”

“When I completed my treatment for breast disease back in March, I had worncold capsso that I was able to keep enough of my hair to continue working through my treatments (I did 2 jobs during that time),” she explained. “What a gift to have that privilege, so that it could be my choice to share when I wanted to 🙏🏻 but still, about 45% or so did fall out.”

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Witt firstopened up about her private battle with cancerin June, two months after completing chemotherapy, in a candidInstagram post. She shared videos of the moment she struck a gong in celebration of the end of her treatments as well as a photo of her holding her official certificate. She also posted a selfie and images in which she removed her head and chest coverings.

“Just a little over 2 months ago, i had my last round of chemical therapy prior to my mastectomy,” Witt wrote at the time.

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“Although we didn’t yet know for absolute certain until after the mastectomy that the disease was completely healed from my left breast, this marked the end of my carboplatin/taxotere, + herceptin/perjeta (the latter two are immunotherapies which will continue, per protocol for HER2+, through the end of this year),” Witt continued.

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“While keeping hair was obviously the last of my concerns on a larger level, I did deeply wish to keep my diagnosis private until it was 100% healed, god willing,” theOrange Is the New Blackalum added.

source: people.com