I decided to quit 'Survivor: All-Stars' in order to be closer to my mother, who ended up passing away from breast cancer seven days after I returned home.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I lost my mom to breast cancer about three years ago, and it has changed me forever.
I realize more and more I miss my 'Survivor' friends when I'm not around them.
I get worried sometimes that people are saying 'Why is she on television - is it because of Survivor?' That people are saying, 'She got here the easy way.' But I have been working hard all these years, and I figured I needed to move forward and embrace it, respect it and perfect it. If I didn't, then everybody would lose.
Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities.
My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.
I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.
Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.
I miss my 'Facts of Life' family. But I had been preparing myself to leave the show for some time before we called it quits.
My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.
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