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Dwight Eubanks is in want of your ideas and prayers.
The previous Actual Housewives of Atlanta star and well-known hair stylist introduced on Monday that he has been recognized with stage 4 prostate most cancers.
After getting some bloodwork achieved in January after which a follow-up take a look at in April, Eubanks advised Folks Journal that his docs confirmed the prognosis about two months in the past.
Dwight Eubanks attends a trend charity profit at Stage 48 on September 11, 2014 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Chelsea Lauren/Getty Pictures)
“I was shocked. I was angry,” Eubanks advised this outlet.
“I was just emotionally a wreck. When you hear the word cancer, you freak out. I’m human. Society has told us that cancer was just devastating and, you know, you just have days to live. So of course I freaked out and I think I’m still freaked out.”
Practically 30 years in the past, Eubanks’ grandfather handed away from his identical illness.
For the file, prostate most cancers is the second-most widespread most cancers amongst males in the US, in keeping with the American Most cancers Society.
Sadly, Black males are twice as more likely to die from prostate most cancers than White males.
Dwight Eubanks attends the Thurgood Marshall Faculty Fund twenty fifth Awards Gala on November 11, 2013 in Washington Metropolis. (Photograph by Paul Morigi/Getty Pictures for Thurgood Marshall Faculty Fund)
Eubanks appeared on The Actual Housewives of Atlanta as a good friend of collection star NeNe Leakes, sharing quite a few scenes with forged members equivalent to Shereé Whitfield and Kim Zolciak.
Within the years since his his program exit and falling out with Leakes, Eubanks opened and now operates the Purple Door Salon in Atlanta.
He has appeared on a number of seasons of Bravo’s Married to Medication.
Dwight Eubanks attends Mercedes-Benz Style Week at Bryant Park on February 11, 2010 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Katy Winn/Getty Pictures for IMG)
Eubanks was additionally recognized with HIV the Nineteen Eighties.
He advised Folks he’s nonetheless working along with his docs on a therapy plan that may finest go well with him.
“I feel good,” Eubanks emphasised.
“I’m 64, that’s young to me…We’re all going to go through something. But when we reach those bridges, you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and carry on. Because life really is a beautiful thing.”
