Judith Lucy Wrote the Book on Wellness. Then She Got Cancer

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Judith Lucy wrote the book on wellness. Then she got cancer.

After years of anxiety and a burnout that forced her to step away from stand-up, one of Australia’s funniest women went searching for a way to feel better. That search took her all the way to an ayahuasca retreat in the Amazon. Let’s just say enlightenment wasn’t what she brought home.

Just days before her scheduled double mastectomy, Judith joins her longtime friend Kate Langbroek for a conversation that is as funny, frank and deeply personal as you’d expect.

She shares the Christmas Day revelation that changed how she understood her family, and the devastating phone call that exposed the boyfriend she thought she’d grow old with. She also opens up about the anxiety that followed her on stage for decades, and why it took until her 50s to ask what she actually wanted her life to look like.

And when her cancer diagnosis brought up a fear familiar to so many single women, who would look after her, her friends had an answer.

Judith’s new book, Well Well Well, is out now through Simon & Schuster.

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