JERSEY Shore star Snooki has confessed that she’s putting off life-saving surgery because she’s scared.
At the start of the year, Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi revealed her stage 1 cervical cancer diagnosis to the world.
The MTV reality star, 38, believes she could have avoided the diagnosis had she gone to her recommended follow up visits to the doctor.
But despite saying she had regrets over “just keep putting it off” about her prior appointments, she is now putting off life-saving surgery.
Her doctor recommends that Nicole should undergo a hysterectomy to avoid the possibility of the cancer’s return.
“No, we’re not putting off any more appointments,” Nicole said.
But she later added: “They’re already yelling at me to schedule the hysterectomy, which I didn’t. I’m traveling.”
Lara then pressed: “I know but this is your life,” adding how she is a mom to three beautiful kids.
“Well, I’m not going to lie, I’m scared,” the reality star added.
“I know, and I understand that. But you know what’s going to be more scary? If you don’t do it,” Lara urged.
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“If you get this hysterectomy, do the doctors feel like you will be way ahead of the curve?” Lara asked.
Snooki replied: “Yes.”
Nicole recently underwent a PET scan where the results thankfully showed the cancer has not spread, though the surgery is highly encouraged to ensure the cancer does not return.
Elsewhere in the interview, Snooki opened up about the moment she found out about her devastating diagnosis.
“I was terrified. I was terribly crying in my car. Like, what am I going to do?” she recalled.
“I have three kids. I got to do my will. I haven’t done my will yet.”
Snooki first told fans about her health scare in an emotional video posted online in January.
At the time, she urged her followers to take their gynecological health seriously, and get all the necessary appointments done.
She noted that she was trying to get caught up on all hers, adding that several recent pap smears came back irregular in recent years.
Nicole said this raised concern with her doctors, who urged her to undergo a colposcopy to retrieve samples from her cervix for biopsy.
“That hurt. It wasn’t a great experience,” she said.
She then shared that the results of the colposcopy were “not great,” adding that her doctor “found cancerous cells on the top of my cervix.”
He urged her to get a biopsy to see if the cancerous cells spread, telling her the results of that would determine the next steps.
Nicole admitted at the time that she had avoided visiting the doctor because she did not want to deal with “pain” or “stress” caused by different procedures.
She admitted, however, that doctors visits are necessary, and encouraged her followers to take it seriously.
Snooki got emotional in the clip as the reality hit her.
“Obviously, I’m done having kids,” Nicole said through tears.
“But like as a woman, the thought of getting a hysterectomy is just sad, and it’s scary…the thought of getting the hysterectomy and then not being able to have kids, I think that’s what’s killing me,” she confessed.