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FRAN DRESCHER

EMMY AWARD AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED AMERICAN FILM AND TELEVISION ACTRESS, COMEDIAN, AND ACTIVIST

Having survived uterine cancer, Fran Drescher now wants to help other women and, as she tells Julie Beun-Chown, have a child.

I met Fran Drescher six years ago on a small yacht cruising around Sydney Harbour. It was a typically hot, sunny boxing day, and the boat was headed out through the heads to view the start of the Sydney to Hobart race.

The Nanny was smaller, more beautiful and fresher than her TV personality, nanny Fran Fine. But she was also like no other celebrity I’ve met before- she was frank, funny, wise and venerable. And yes, that nasal Noo Yawk twang was the voice God gave her. She openly discussed her marriage to her high-school sweetheart, Peter Marc Jacobson (who co-produced The Nanny with Fran), being raped at gunpoint and her consequent therapy. She was a real person, not a glossy Hollywood creation.

Recently, we renewed the acquaintance. Living on the west coast has softened the unmistakable accent, but there is something else. Her voice is now the voice of a woman who has suffered greatly. After 20 years of marriage, she and Peter split up in 1997. Two years later her show was cancelled. Then, in June 2000, came the cruelest blow of all. After complaining to eight different doctors over two years, she was finally diagnosed with uterine cancer and required a radial hysterectomy. And yet, it hasn’t slowed her down.

Fran is co-writing a new sitcom pilot with her boyfriend (who she wants to remain anonymous, although in her book she refers to him as John, so we will do the same,) talking about doing a chat show and working as a patient advocate for the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

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