Actor Tannishtha Chatterjee took to social media on Sunday to open up about her fight with stage 4 oligo metastatic cancer. The actor wrote a long note as she talked about the last 8 months since she was diagnosed with cancer and how the compassion of her friends and family has been helping her.
Tannishtha shared a smiling photo of herself and wrote in caption, “So the last 8 months have been incredibly difficult- to put it mildly. As if losing my father to Cancer was not enough. 8 months back I got diagnosed of stage 4 oligo metastatic Cancer. But this post is not about Pain. It’s about love and strength. It can’t get worse than this. A 70yr old mother and 9 year all daughter, both totally dependent on me.”
She added, “But in the darkest moments, I discovered an extraordinary kind of love, the kind that shows up, holds space, and never lets you feel alone. I found it in my amazing friends and my family, whose unwavering support, brought, genuine smiles to my face, even on the hardest days. In a world racing towards AI and robots, it’s the irreplaceable compassion of real, passionate humans that is saving me. It is their empathy, their messages, their presence – their humanity – that is bringing life back.”
She ended the note by saying, “Cheers to female friendships, the sisterhood that showed up for me with fierce love, deep empathy, and unstoppable strength. You know who you are – and I am endlessly grateful.” She tagged Konkona Sen Sharma, Shabana Azmi, Dia Mirza, Divya Dutta, Richa Chadha, Vidya Balan and others in the post.
In the comments, Konkona wrote, “You are just incredible and inspiring!! Love you.” Abhay Deol said, “Sending you love Tan.” Ali Fazal said, “You rockstar you. We all rootin for you.. nothin in this world thats stronger than you, you know that better, you rockstar you.”
Tannishtha is known for starring in hard-hitting films like, Parched (2015), Angry Indian Goddesses (2015), Lion (2016), Unindian (2016) and Joram (2023), among others.
