Chadwick Boseman's widow on why actor wanted to keep cancer diagnosis private

Simone Ledward Boseman, the widow of actor Chadwick Boseman, is opening up about his battle with colon cancer nearly six years after his death.

Simone Ledward Boseman, the widow of actor Chadwick Boseman, is opening up about his battle with colon cancer nearly six years after his death.

In an interview with the "Today" show aired March 20, Boseman told host Craig Melvin that both she and her husband were shocked by the suddenness of his diagnosis. The "Black Panther" actor died in 2020 at the age of 43.

"I didn’t know that he was experiencing anything until he had already been to the doctor twice. It all seemed to come about very suddenly. It was a matter of weeks that he started not feeling well," she said.

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Boseman described colon cancer as "really tricky in that way because he was so young, he wasn’t even at the point where he would consider having a colonoscopy."