Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Victoria Jackson took to social media this week to share that she has an inoperable tumor.
“I have 34.8 months to live if I don’t get hit by a meteor, shot by a MAGA hater, get Covid again or WWIII breaks out,” the comedian and actor — who appeared on the NBC sketch show in the 1980s and early 1990s— wrote Wednesday on Instagram.
Jackson said in a video that doctors can’t operate to remove what she described as a “marble” on her windpipe, saying it would eventually “suffocate me to death.”
She added that doctors are giving her a “magic pill” containing ribociclib, a kind of cancer growth blocker, that she hopes will “shrink the marble.”
She said she looked up the pill, which she did not name, on Google before finding out that those who use it typically have under three years to live.
“I’ve had a fantastic life,” said the 65-year-old.
Jackson’s health update comes after she previously revealed a breast cancer diagnosis nearly a decade ago.
Outside of “SNL,” Jackson’s credits include films such as “Casual Sex?” and “UHF.” She’s also acted in a number of TV shows, such as Comedy Central’s “Strip Mall” and Nickelodeon’s “Romeo!”
Jackson has faced backlash for making controversial remarks over the years. She called Barack Obama an “Islamic jihadist” toward the end of his presidency, and she knocked the show “Glee” in 2011 for a scene in which two gay characters kiss.
She told Minnesota’s Star Tribune in 2022 that it became difficult to find roles in Hollywood around the time of those remarks.
“I was blacklisted,” Jackson said.
Jackson, who has two daughters and is married to former law enforcement officer Paul Wessel, said in this week’s video that she’d like to see a grandson, named Jimmy, be born in October and “would like to see my daughter Aubrey have a baby.”
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