Amanda Peet Shares Emotional Health Update After Diagnosis

offered an update amid her health battle after revealing her 2025 breast diagnosis earlier this month. 

The 54-year-old actress, who recently of her diagnosis, opened up about how she is doing on Tuesday's episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.

The Something's Gotta Give star penned in an essay for The New Yorker that she learned she had Stage 1, hormone-receptor-positive (HR+), HER2-negative breast cancer last year - when both of her parents had also been on hospice.

At one point, Cohen read out a question from a fan who asked: 'How are you doing since the diagnosis and what is the piece of advice you've gotten from someone as you're dealing with this?' 

'I'm doing great,' Peet positively answered. 'And the best piece of advice I would say is...

'Enjoy it while we're here,' she continued, while the talk show host added, 'That is something to live by everyday.' 

Peet wrote an essay for The New Yorker which was published on March 21 as she went public with her breast cancer diagnosis. 

She recalled going in for a checkup shortly before Labor Day last year for a 'routine scan' - which then led to the discovery of an early stage tumor.  

Peet tied the knot with Game Of Thrones co-creator David Benioff in 2006 and the couple share three children: Frances, 19, Molly, 16, and Henry, 11; seen in 2024 in Beverly Hills