John Mulaney showed up to pay tribute to wife Olivia Munn at InStyle’s Imagemaker Awards last week.
The 42-year-old comedian gave an emotional speech while presenting an award to Olivia, 44, at the event on Thursday (October 24) at a private residence in Los Angeles.
Olivia was presented with a Woman of Impact Award in recognition of “her advocacy and change-making in women’s health following her breast cancer diagnosis in 2023.”
During his speech, John shared what they learned from Olivia‘s cancer journey.
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“We learned a lot from it,” he said. “We learned she would need five surgeries. We learned there was a risk of lymphedema. We learned that if we had not caught it when we caught it, things could have been a lot worse.”
He also added some humor by joking, “I also learned it’s not pronounced ‘masectomy,’ it’s pronounced ‘mastectomy.’ It has a T in it. It shouldn’t. It should be ‘masectomy.’ It’s ironic that the word itself has a part that should be removed, I think.”
“About a year later, Olivia shared her story. Her cancer journey. This was a cancer that was not detected from a BRCA gene test, it was not detected by a mammogram. It was detected because she took a heretofore not-that-known test called the lifetime breast cancer risk assessment test and they found that she had a 37 percent chance of breast cancer,” John said. “And about a month later, she was having a double mastectomy. She shared her story to help anyone she could. According to the National Cancer Institute, in the week after Olivia shared the story of her breast cancer journey, there was a 4,000 percent increase in women visiting the breast cancer risk assessment. That was the first week. Olivia saving lives by speaking her truth is not surprising to me.”
The couple just welcomed their second child into the world last month!
