Amanda Peet, 54, offers poignant  health update days after revealing breast cancer diagnosis

Amanda Peet offered an update amid her health battle after revealing her 2025 breast cancer diagnosis earlier this month. 

The 54-year-old actress, who recently shared how her three children reacted to the news of her diagnosis, opened up about how she is doing on Tuesday's episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.

The Something's Gotta Give star penned in an essay for The New Yorker that she learned she had Stage 1, hormone-receptor-positive (HR+), HER2-negative breast cancer last year - when both of her parents had also been on hospice.

At one point, Cohen read out a question from a fan who asked: 'How are you doing since the diagnosis and what is the piece of advice you've gotten from someone as you're dealing with this?' 

'I'm doing great,' Peet positively answered. 'And the best piece of advice I would say is...

'Enjoy it while we're here,' she continued, while the talk show host added, 'That is something to live by everyday.' 

Peet wrote an essay for The New Yorker which was published on March 21 as she went public with her breast cancer diagnosis. 

She recalled going in for a checkup shortly before Labor Day last year for a 'routine scan' - which then led to the discovery of an early stage tumor.  

'For many years, I've been told that I have "dense" and "busy" breasts - not as a compliment but as a warning that they require extra monitoring,' she wrote. 

'I had been seeing a breast surgeon every six months for checkups. The Friday before Labor Day, I went for what I thought would be a routine scan.'  

However, her doctor ordered that a biopsy be done after not liking 'the way something looked on the ultrasound.' 

Peet expressed that what her doctor said next caused her to have a feeling that something could be wrong. 

'After the procedure, she said that she would walk the sample over to Cedars-Sinai and hand-deliver it to Pathology. That's when I knew.' 

The following day, the star's doctor informed her that the tumor 'appeared' to be small but she would need to still undergo an MRI 'to determine "the extent of disease."' 

She would then learn of her stage one diagnosis. 

'I was happier than I'd been pre-diagnosis, when I was just a regular person who didn't have cancer.' 

Peet added in the essay, 'But after about 10 minutes, I remembered that I still needed the MRI and regressed to baseline terror.'

She remembered her doctor telling her that her lymph nodes would also be checked by a radiologist as well as 'the left side for any surprise findings.' 

'It was dawning on me that cancer diagnoses come in a slow drip,' the actress penned. 

At the time she learned she had breast cancer, both Peet's divorced mother and father were in hospice care - but on 'opposite coasts.' 

Her father passed away not longer after starting hospice.

'I didn't make it before my father took his last breath, but I got to see his body before it was taken from his apartment.'

Peet returned to her mother in Los Angeles - who was in the last stages of Parkinson's disease.

The star made the decision to not tell her mother of her cancer diagnosis or of her father's passing. 

She recalled a moment sitting next to her mother in bed and wrote, 'I wasn't sure whether my mom knew that she was looking at me or whether I was just a constellation of interesting, disembodied shapes. 

'I said "howdy doodle" - that's how she often greeted me. But then I realized that she was communing without words, and I followed suit. Time was running out, and, besides, I had already told her everything.'

Peet tied the knot with Game Of Thrones co-creator David Benioff in 2006 and the couple share three children: Frances, 19, Molly, 16, and Henry, 11. 

While recently talking to E! News, the actress revealed how her children have handled her diagnosis.

'They've been great,' she said. 'I definitely had to get myself together before including them. 

'The hard part was realizing that nothing is certain and there was going to be no perfect time to tell them.'

Peet has been working in the entertainment industry for many years and made her film debut in the 1995 project Animal Room. 

She went on to star in other movies such as She's The One (1996), The Whole Nine Yards (2000), Something's Gotta Give (2003) and Gulliver's Travels (2010). 

Peet has additionally made appearances in TV shows including Seinfeld, How I Met Your Mother, The Good Wife and Fatal Attraction. 

Most recently, the actress has taken on the role of Mel Cooper in the Apple TV+ series Your Friends & Neighbors - with the second season set to premiere on April 3.