Marlyne Barrett: 5 things to know about the 'Chicago Med' star with cancer

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Marlyne Barrett, 44, has revealed she has uterine and ovarian cancer, in a new interview. The Chicago Med actress, whose character Nurse Maggie Lockwood battled breast cancer on the show, admitted that despite being a "private person", she felt "responsible" to tell her story, as she explained. situation, in a video posted by . She also revealed that she had already started treatment.

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"I'm an extremely reserved person, but I felt responsible for telling my story," she began. "When my character went through breast cancer, an ocean of people contacted me through social media. They gave me courage, and so I felt a sense of inevitability to meet their hearts where they met me."

Marlyne Barrett on 'Chicago Med.' (Elizabeth Sisson/NBC/Everett Collection)

"As a 'human beings, we are so afraid to face the mortality of life, or even to utter the word cancer," she continued. "But we have so much more...