Tom Hanks opened up about his wife Rita Wilson's fight against cancer and her recovery. He revealed that life came to a "halt" for him when the disease struck his spouse in 2014.
The two-time Oscar award-winning actor, Hanks, said he was surprised with the disease that attacked his wife in just a short amount of time. He said, "What has been so amazing about it is how powerfully it plays out in a relatively short period of time."
He added, "We all know by now what hell that sort of health crisis is. It just comes along out of the blue and everything else stops because the only thing to do is to drop everything else and pay attention to myriad stuff that needs to be attended to."
According to Gulf News, Hanks mentioned that his wife found out about her cancer diagnosis in December last year. Which meant the family had a different version in celebrating Christmas and New Year compared to the previous years before.
"Rita found out [about her cancer diagnosis] last December. That meant Christmas and New Year was a completely different version of how it had been on any year before, and now here we are, a year later, and she seems to be out of it."
Tom Hanks said that they are lucky that they could afford the best treatments in the world his wife could ever have. What is more surprising is he never expected how he admired Rita for being courageous enough to fight against cancer.
"We knew that blessing right off, but while it was happening, all I could do was bow down before the courage of my wife," he said.
Belfast Telegraph reported that Hanks is angry to those who will take advantage to those patients with cancer by pushing medical procedures that are considered quack.
"When they find out you have a certain illness, particularly cancer, they will immediately try to make money off you. They do this by pushing some procedures that might have a degree of science to them that might make them accurate, and some others that are complete quack."
"Like anything from saying, 'Go to some clinic in Bolivia and they'll cure you,' or 'Just go on a diet of peach stones,' or something crazy. These people are just trying to make money from the illness and they only add to the difficulty of what is already going on because they are dealing in false hopes," Tom Hanks angrily stated.