And I also am very nervous about implants. You know, I'm just nervous about all that. So I could still do it. I could think about it. But I needed to adapt to myself.
And I really also wanted to have the full-body scans to learn if it was anywhere else - and it wasn't - before I told them. So I didn't tell them, until for a week, and then I told them.
And I think one can forgive, and I don't think one can forget. I'm not sure what stage I've reached about my marriage yet, but I know I'm past it.
And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.
And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient.
And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.
And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.
As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.
But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen.
But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off.
But when this happens to you - and I think other people would identify with this - suddenly, colors are brighter. You see everything.
God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77.
I believe I have lots of time. I have to believe that, that it won't come back, and that that's why I'm in good hands. But I also do live my life by putting nothing off.
I chose the surgery because I had to work. I had to work for my own well-being. I had to be on stage. I had plans to be on stage.
I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.
I didn't go into a depression where I stopped. No. I had what I called my days of grief, and they got further and further apart.
I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.
I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink. I know they don't like to be called shrinks. I went to a psychiatrist.
I don't put off any time with my grandchildren. I don't put off a thing.
I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.
I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.
I don't want to marry again. I did that.
I find love from time to time.
I had breast cancer - on the morning of January 16, I still had breast cancer. On the afternoon of January the 16th, thanks to a brilliant surgeon - I'm not going to name the doctors right now because I know there's a certain sort of anonymity, but I want to thank them very, very much.
I now - I call the shots in my own life.
I think - I think I've always been kind of - I used to think of myself as a piece of rubber when I was a kid because I was kind of very shy and very - very emotional about things, but I kind of would bounce back.
I would see people very joyful and I would think, Oh, they don't know, maybe they're human and this will happen.
I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.
I'm working as hard or harder than I ever have in something I love, in a show I love.
In 1967, I married a man who I loved very much. The man I knew then no longer exists.
It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children.
So I - the thought that I would physically be different was - it's not a thrill, I have to tell you. It's kind of - it brings you up short. But I was able to look at it right away.
There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.
They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.
Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer.
You know I get sort of riled up if I see something that I think is just sort of blatantly wrong, then I'll stand up.
Looking at my horrible ugly bulk on a huge screen was the turning point in my life.
Granddaughter of Roy Redgrave
Children, with John Clark: Ben, Kelly Clark, Annabel Clark.
Daughter of Michael Redgrave & Rachel Kempson,
Sister of Corin Redgrave & Vanessa Redgrave
Aunt of Natasha Richardson, Joely Richardson, Luke Redgrave and Jemma Redgrave.
Tony award nomination for "Mrs. Warren's Profession" [1976]
Became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Awarded an OBE, or Officer of the Order of British Empire, by Queen Elizabeth II in the New Year's Eve Honors List 2001.
Both she and her sister, Vanessa Redgrave, were nominated for the 1966 Best Actress Academy Award. Lynn was nominated for Georgy Girl (1966), and Vanessa was nominated for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966). They both lost out to Elizabeth Taylor, who won for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).
Aunt of Carlo Gabriel Nero
Was one of the judges in the 1972 Miss Universe pageant.
Has twice been nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress (Play): in 1976 for George Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession;" and seventeen years later, in 1993, for "Shakespeare for My Father," her one-woman show about her relationship with her father, Michael Redgrave.
Won the 2004 Barrymore Award (honoring Philadelphia theater) for Outstanding Leading Actress in a Play for "Collected Stories."
Played "Final Interview Subject" in Kinsey (2004) as well as "The Queen" in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972), which was inspired by the sex manual by Dr. David Reuben, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (1969), three years after the Masters & Johnson study Human Sexual Response.
Played Queen Elizabeth I in The Lost Colony Outdoor Drama in Summer of 2006 in Manteo, NC.
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