waited until she was in the right mindset to tell her three children - daughter Frances, 19, daughter Molly, nearly 16, and son Henry, 11 - about her being diagnosed with breast last August.
'They've been great,' the 54-year-old Your Friends & Neighbors star told E! News on Tuesday.
'I definitely had to get myself together before including them. The hard part was realizing that nothing is certain and there was going to be no perfect time to tell them.'
Peet and her husband of 19 years - co-creator David Benioff - waited until she discovered the second mass the doctor found in the MRI scan was ruled benign to spill the beans.
'Molly cried, and Frankie — FaceTiming from her college quad — clapped her hand over her mouth and kept it there until she was able to process the excellent portion of the news,' the Independent Spirit Award winner wrote in her essay for the New Yorker last Saturday.
'That it appeared I was stage one and wasn't going to need chemo. Both of them were afraid that we were still withholding information or sugarcoating my prognosis. I wondered whether I'd become too accustomed to therapeutic fibbing.
Amanda Peet waited until she was in the right mindset to tell her three children - daughter Frances, 19, daughter Molly, nearly 16, and son Henry, 11 - about her being diagnosed with breast cancer last August (pictured in 2015)
'They've been great,' the 54-year-old Your Friends & Neighbors star told E! News. 'I definitely had to get myself together before including them. The hard part was realizing that nothing is certain and there was going to be no perfect time to tell them' (pictured October 18)
'My daughters were on the cusp of adulthood. If we were going to remain close, to know each other deeply over the course of a lifetime, we would have to learn how to have difficult conversations.'
Luckily, Peet was hormone-receptor-positive and 'HER2-negative' so she's only undergone a lumpectomy and radiation treatment, and her first clear scan was in mid-January.
The cancer news was compounded by the fact that the native New Yorker's divorced parents Charles Peet and Penny Levy both died in hospice on opposite coasts as she was grappling with her diagnosis.
Peet and her husband of 19 years - Game of Thrones co-creator David Benioff (L, pictured in 2024) - waited until she discovered the second mass the doctor found in the MRI scan was ruled benign to spill the beans
The Independent Spirit Award winner wrote in her essay for the New Yorker last Saturday: 'Molly cried, and Frankie - FaceTiming from her college quad - clapped her hand over her mouth and kept it there until she was able to process the excellent portion of the news' (pictured in 2010)
She continued: 'That it appeared I was stage one and wasn't going to need chemo. Both of them were afraid that we were still withholding information or sugarcoating my prognosis. I wondered whether I'd become too accustomed to therapeutic fibbing' (pictured with daughter Frances in 2010)
Luckily, Peet was hormone-receptor-positive and 'HER2-negative' so she's only undergone a lumpectomy and radiation treatment, and her first clear scan was in mid-January (pictured May 17)
The cancer news was compounded by the fact that the native New Yorker's divorced parents Charles Peet and Penny Levy (R, pictured in 2008) both died in hospice on opposite coasts as she was grappling with her diagnosis
Peet's children think what she does for a living is 'so weird' especially after watching her portray then 66-year-old Jack Nicholson's (R) girlfriend Marin in Nancy Meyers' 2003 rom-com Something's Gotta Give
'I was like, "I really want you to see this. This was a huge moment in my career,"' the Columbia University grad told E! 'They watched five minutes of it and saw me with Jack Nicholson - I think I straddle him at one point - and they turned it off. They were like, "This is reprehensible. This is ethically dubious, and we're out"'
Peet produced and stars as New York actress Dianne in Matthew Shear's rom-com Fantasy Life, which hits limited US theaters this Friday before a wider release on April 3
The brunette beauty will also reprise her role as Andrew Cooper's (R, Jon Hamm) therapist wife Mel in the 10-episode second season of Your Friends & Neighbors, which premieres April 3 on Apple TV+
Peet produced and stars as New York actress Dianne in Matthew Shear's rom-com Fantasy Life, which hits limited US theaters this Friday before a wider release on April 3.
