Stanley Tucci, 60, reveals he lost 30lbs during his tongue cancer battle

Stanley Tucci lost 30lbs when he battled tongue cancer.

The Devil Wears Prada star said the weight loss came from losing his sense of taste while going through chemotherapy, which was ‘devastating.’

The Burlesque actor also said his ‘taste buds and saliva glands were destroyed as was the inside of my mouth, and it’s taken really two years to get back to almost normal.’ 

The actor, 60, was discussing his battle with cancer on Good Morning America while promoting his new memoir Taste: My Life Through Food.  

‘It’s mostly memoir,’ the Devil Wears Prada star said. ‘It’s sort of peppered with recipes, excuse the pun.’ 

The actor recently revealed that the tumor in his tongue was too large to operate on, so he he to endure high-dose radiation and chemotherapy. 

It was during this time that the actor lost his sense of taste.  

When asked what it was like to go through that, Tucci replied ‘It was devastating.’

He went on to add, ‘Luckily, the cure rate was very high. So it’s three years later now and everything is fine, but I was unable to eat solid food for six months.’  

Though his fight with cancer obviously took his toll, the actor did take a moment to note how happy he is to be alive. 

‘That said, it’s a small price to pay for being alive and being able to accompany my family,’ he noted. 

Now cancer-free, the actor has stepped right back into the fast-paced entertainment industry in recent years.  

The actor has roles in two series which are currently filming. The first is Inside Man, about a prisoner on death row and a woman trapped in a cellar crossing paths. There is no set release date yet.

The second series is Citadel, which is a spy series set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video. He will appear alongside Priyanka Chopra Jonas in the series.

Besides those two series, Tucci also has an upcoming role as famous music executive Clive Davis in the Whitney Huston biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody.  

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