Danielle Fishel is reflecting on her battle with breast cancer, opening up about why she made the decision not to tell her two young sons about her diagnosis.
The Boy Meets World alum, 43, who shares Adler, five, and Keaton, three, with her husband Jensen Karp, said she struggled with the thought of her kids worrying about her.
She opened up about her diagnosis on Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes’ podcast: Amy & T.J, admitting she found it difficult to tell her husband about her health condition, let alone her small children.
‘Both of his parents passed,’ she explained. ‘His mom died in 2022 from lung cancer and she lived with us while she was going through chemo and her cancer treatment.‘
Fishel, who is now cancer free, explained their eldest son Adler was three when his grandma passed away and he was ‘very close to her,’ and she was worried he was going to ask them where she went.
Danielle Fishel is reflecting on her battle with breast cancer , opening up about why she made the decision not to tell her two young sons about her diagnosis
‘My big concern was that if we tell him that she was sick, he’s gonna think the next time he gets a cold that he’s gonna die,’ Fishel explained.
‘Or that the next time Mommy or Daddy is sick, he’s gonna think we’re gonna die,’ she continued.
‘So I wanted to be honest with him about the fact that she had cancer and that cancer doesn’t always mean that you die, but sometimes it does. And in Grandma’s case, that’s what it was.’
The actress said when she was diagnosed, her fear was that if she told her kids, whom she is normally ‘so honest’ with, they would think she was going to die.
‘I can’t handle that possibility that they’re gonna worry about me in that way,’ she admitted.
Instead, Fishel told her kids she had a ‘boo boo’ and had to have surgery, so they needed to be gentle with her.
‘I told them I love our bear hugs and I love wrestling with you, but my boo-boo means that I need to be gentle,’ she explained.
When she had healed, she was thrilled to tell her eldest, Adler, her ‘boo boo was all better.’
Fisher pictured with her husband, one of her sons and her mother in 2022
She opened up about her diagnosis on Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes’ podcast: Amy & T.J, admitting she found it difficult to tell her husband Jensen Karp (pictured) let alone her small children
Fishel is best known for playing Topanga Lawrence on the teen sitcom Boy Meets World; pictured far R with co-stars Will Friedle, Rider Strong, and Ben Savage
Fishel, who is now cancer free, explained their eldest son Adler was three when his grandma passed away and he was ‘ very close to her’
‘My friends, my family, the breast cancer community, I’ve never felt more loved and supported than I have in these last three months,’ she gushed.
Fishel revealed her DCIS diagnosis, which stands for ductal carcinoma in situ, in an August episode of her podcast, Pod Meets World.
She shared she caught it very early and it was caught in her annual mammogram.
There were just two millimeters of cancer at the time of her diagnosis, which she explained was most likely too small to be detected manually.
Last week, Fishel took to Instagram to stress the importance of preventive care to her 1.2 million followers.
In a caption, she wrote, ‘I’m proud to team up with @aflac to spread the word about the life-saving effects of preventive care.
‘Knowing my breast cancer diagnosis early on gave me the power to take action. That’s why, no matter how busy you are, it’s important to make time for annual checkups and screenings – because #yourwellnessmatters.’
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