Valerie Harper, who starred on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, revealed earlier this year that she is battling terminal brain cancer and that she was told she only has months to live. Her battle and her career will be the subject of a prime time special for NBC.
According to USA Today, the special will be hosted by former Today Show anchor Meredith Vieira. The network’s in-house production company, NBC News’ Peacock Productions, is producing the hour-long special. The network will announce the air date soon.
“This first-person account captures Harper's raw, emotional and hopeful journey as she goes through experimental treatments and lives each day to the fullest with her husband Tony Cacciotti and their daughter Christina,” NBC said in a statement.
In March, we learned that the 73-year-old actress got the news from her doctors in January. Harper, who already survived a 2009 battle with lung cancer, said she was told she would only have three months to live.
“I don't think of dying,” she told People Magazine at the time. "I think of being here now."
“I'm well past my expiration date already,” the Rhoda star added.
After the People issue was published, TV Land and Hot In Cleveland producers announced that she would join Mary Tyler Moore, Cloris Leachman, Betty White and Georgia Engel for a Mary Tyler Moore Show reunion on the hit sitcom.
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