Olivia Munn Shared the Specific Thing She Heard Kate Middleton Say That Helped Her amid Her Cancer Journey (Exclusive)
Olivia Munn Shared the Specific Thing She Heard Kate Middleton Say That Helped Her amid Her Cancer Journey (Exclusive)
Toria Sheffield, Maya PowSun, April 12, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC
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Olivia Munn (left); Kate MiddletonCredit: VALERIE MACON / AFP via Getty; Yui Mok - Pool/Getty -
Olivia Munn says Kate Middleton's words have helped her navigate some difficult moments amid her cancer journey
Munn, 45, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023
The actress says she now deals with side effects from her various cancer-related medications, which she shared can feel isolating at times
Olivia Munn recently shared how Kate Middleton indirectly helped her amid her cancer journey.
Munn, 45, caught up with PEOPLE exclusively during a recent press junket for season 2 of Apple TV’s Your Friends & Neighbors.
During the conversation, the actress, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2023, said there are a number of challenges that many cancer survivors face after their initial rounds of treatment.
"I've been open about this, that with breast cancer, there's so much medication afterwards for certain people,” Munn explained.
Olivia Munn at the season 2 premiere of 'Your Friends & Neighbors' premiere on March 30, 2026Credit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty
“And for someone like me — and the type of breast cancer I had, and how aggressive it was, and for the age I am, and not having been premenopausal when I was diagnosed — there's so many more medications I have to take. And there are a lot of side effects and they have been really hard on me,” she added.
Munn continued, “I guess I was hard on myself because I would ask other friends who were on the same treatment plan as me if they'd had any of my symptoms, and none of them did. Not one person said that they had exhaustion or mood swings or body aches. I thought, ‘I'm the only one getting this.’ ”
Kate Middleton (left) with a patient at Royal Marsden Hospital on Jan. 14, 2025Credit: Chris Jackson/Getty
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However, Munn said that she recently heard the Princess of Wales, 44, a fellow cancer survivor, say something that both helped and resonated with her.
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“Kate Middleton had talked about this recently, and she said it so succinctly [and] it really touched me and gave me such a sense of peace, because I finally had words behind it,” Munn said.
“She was like, ‘You think that the big things are the things you have to worry about,’ — I'm paraphrasing her — ‘But it's the treatment after you've gone through the big things that's really taxing and hard on you.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, somebody else is feeling that.’ "
She added, “That's where it feels really good … when you hear other people's experiences, because it is true — you feel so much better when you know you're not alone.”
Kate, who announced she was diagnosed in March 2024 and has since shared she is in remission, spoke candidly about her experience with cancer while visiting Colchester Hospital in July 2025.
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"You put on a sort of brave face, stoicism through treatment. Treatment's done, then it's like, 'I can crack on, get back to normal,' but actually, the phase afterwards is really, really difficult,” the princess said.
She added, “You have to find your new normal, and that takes time — and it's a roller coaster, it's not smooth, like you expect it to be. But the reality is you go through hard times.”
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