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The star’s mother, Judith Bowles, said that her daughter’s battle with breast cancer “was horrific.”

\"Her strength, just now, is coming back. It takes about a year,\" she said.

Despite how difficult and painful the illness was for Louis-Dreyfus, she never let herself imagine the unimaginable — succumbing to the disease.

\"Don’t misunderstand: I was to-my-bones terrified. But I didn’t let myself—except for a couple of moments—go to a really dark place. I didn’t allow it,\" she said.

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Louis-Dreyfus recalled one day in particular when she was undergoing treatment. She was preparing for her acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which she received in October 2018, with writer friends and colleagues.

She told The New Yorker, \"The old cliché about laughter being the best medicine turns out to be true: when I was getting my hideous chemotherapy, I’d cram a bunch of friends and family into the tiny treatment room with me. Gosh, as I’m saying this I’m going to cry.\"

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Along with battling cancer, Louis-Dreyfus lost two family members in the last two years.

Her father died in September 2016 and her sister, Emma, 44, died suddenly in August on a camping trip from a fatal seizure.

An autopsy found she had cocaine and alcohol in her body.

\"Given the fact that that heinous s--- came out, I would simply say I’ve kept this under wraps out of reverence for my dearest Emma,\" Louis-Dreyfus told The New Yorker.

\"It’s been a very bad period of time,\" she added.

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