Harry connick jr wife breast cancer

The "It Had to Be You" singer just got real about his wife's health.

In an interview with People magazine, Harry Connick Jr. revealed that his wife, Jill Goodacre, had been diagnosed with breast cancer back in October 2012.

After getting a mammogram done, Goodacre thought she was fine, as nothing was detected in the x-ray. But her doctor wanted to make sure of the results. Goodacre, 53, recalled, "They said, 'Okay, looks good.

Harry connick jr wife breast cancer stage

Since you have dense breasts, just go across the hall for your sonogram."

The sonogram detected something suspicious, so Goodacre had a biopsy done—and she received some bad news: Stage 1 invasive ductal carcinoma. She then had to undergo a lumpectomy as well as radiation.

The news, while surely terrifying for Goodacre, also greatly affected her husband, who'd previously lost his mother to cancer when he was just 13 years old.

"I was scared I was going to lose her, absolutely," Connick Jr., tol