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Erik Jensen is battling cancer.
According to a GoFundMe page set up last week, the 53-year-old The Walking Dead and Mr. Robot actor is being treated after being diagnosed with Stage IV colorectal cancer.
“After miraculously surviving a brain aneurysm just a year and a half ago, our beloved Erik Jensen was just diagnosed with Stage IV colorectal cancer,” the page reads.
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“The cancer has metastasized to his liver, but Erik is young and strong (cutting a film during chemo, working full-time as a director and writer throughout) and his doctors have a shot at shrinking the tumors enough to do two very major surgeries and get them all out,” the page continued.
Erik shares 13-year-old daughter Sadie with wife Jessica Blank.
“He is incredibly resilient and strong; Erik is a survivor,” the page added. “We know he can make it through this, come out the other side, and continue to make great work and support his community for years to come.”
Erik‘s loved ones are hoping to raise $300,000 in total, noting that following his aneurysm and cancer diagnosis, and the Hollywood strikes, his family is now “in an extremely precarious financial position and they need a lot of help to make it through the next year, pay for treatment to fight his cancer, keep their home, and maintain some sort of stability for Sadie.”
“He is one of the most hardworking, loving, truthful and devoted people we know. He needs to help his daughter grow up,” the GoFundMe wrote. “He needs to stick around for the beautiful community he and Jess have built. And he has a lot more art to make in the world.”
After Erik‘s GoFundMe page went live, Walking Dead executive producer Scott Gimple shared the link on Twitter, writing, “One of TWD’s
Barton Cowperthwaite, star of Netflix’s Tiny Pretty Things, is opening up about his health and revealed he was diagnosed with Stage 2 brain cancer.
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Walking Dead star Erik Jensen has been diagnosed with stage four colorectal cancer, his wife Jessica Blank confirmed.The news comes nearly two years after the actor suffered a brain aneurysm. Jessica started a GoFundMe fundraiser to help cover health-related costs.The page reveals that the cancer "has metastasized to his liver." Erik's biggest hope is if doctors can shrink the tumours enough to perform two major surgeries and remove them all, Jessica shared. She also mentioned that they were facing financial difficulties as Erik had experienced a "lack of streaming residuals" in recent years, a point of contention among SAG-AFTRA union members who are currently on strike.
The Walking Dead, has been diagnosed with stage four cancer.The actor’s diagnosis was shared in a GoFundMe post by his family, who are hoping to raise $300,000 to “make it through the next year, pay for treatment to fight his cancer, keep their home, and maintain some sort of stability” for his wife Jessica and 13-year-old daughter Sadie.“After miraculously surviving a brain aneurysm just a year and a half ago, our beloved Erik Jensen was just diagnosed with Stage IV colorectal cancer,” the page reads.“The cancer has metastasized to his liver, but Erik is young and strong (cutting a film during chemo, working full-time as a director and writer throughout) and his doctors think they have a shot at shrinking the tumors enough to do two very major surgeries and get them all out,” they added. “He can make it through this. But Erik and his family are in for the fight of their lives, and they need your support.”Jensen played Dr.
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