Marlyne Barrett: 5 Things To Know About The ‘Chicago Med’ Star Who Has Cancer

Marlyne Barrett, 44, revealed she has uterine and ovarian cancer, successful a caller interview. The Chicago Med actress, whose character, caregiver Maggie Lockwood battled bosom crab connected the series, admitted that though she’s a “private person,” she felt a “responsibility” to archer her story, arsenic she explained the situation, successful a video posted by People. She besides revealed she had already begun treatment.

“I’m an highly backstage person, but I felt a work to archer my story,” she began. “When my quality went done bosom cancer, I had a oversea of radical scope retired to maine done societal media. They brought maine courage, and truthful I felt a consciousness of inevitability to conscionable their hearts wherever they met me.”

Marlyne Barrett connected ‘Chicago Med.’ (Elizabeth Sisson/NBC/Everett Collection)

“We arsenic quality beings are truthful frightened to look the mortality of life, oregon to adjacent pronounce the connection cancer,” she continued. “But we person truthful overmuch much spot wrong of america than we think.”

Find retired much astir Marlyne and her diagnosis below.

Marlyne’s crab travel started 2 months ago.

It was successful Apr. aft she had a hernia repair. “I had this accumulation of fluid [in my abdomen] that I couldn’t shake,” she said. “I looked similar I was 9 months pregnant. And I besides had shortness of breath, but nary pain, which was interesting.”

By July, her doctors explained that she had a wide connected her ovary and uterus. “The archetypal acquisition was a shock, a daze to my womanhood,” she shared. “I didn’t judge them, but erstwhile they showed maine the CT scan, I went, ‘Oh my word.’ The archetypal questions were, ‘Am I going to live?’ I conscionable fell into my husband’s arms. It inactive takes my enactment distant erstwhile I deliberation astir it.”

She’s a mom.

Marlyne is the parent of 11-month-old twins Joshuah-Jireh and Ahnne-N’Urya with her husband, pastor Gavin Barrett, whom she joined successful 2009. They person been helping her get done the struggles with her health. “I’m joined to the astir unthinkable man,” she said to People. “I get pins and needles successful my limbs from the chemo and he’ll driblet everything to springiness maine nutrient and manus massages. He’s dropped everything conscionable to springiness maine love.”

Doctors told Marlyne she would request ‘aggressive’ attraction aft her diagnosis.

The aesculapian squad said she would request chemotherapy and a hysterectomy aft that. “The champion mode I could acquisition was to conscionable it,” she explained. “There’s nary moving from it due to the fact that it’s my life. And yet you conscionable surrender due to the fact that it’s truthful overmuch bigger than thing you’ve ever faced. I recovered this courageousness and I conscionable hunkered down and said, ‘I’m going to look this.'”

When discussing her inevitable hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment from the treatment, Marlyne said she took matters into her ain hands earlier it could happen. “I didn’t privation to springiness the powerfulness to chemo,” she said. “My hairsbreadth has ever been an essence of beauty. But I took my ain razor and I shaved my head. I did it successful beforehand of my babies truthful they’d spot it was inactive Mommy. I wept, I wept, I wept. But it was a beauteous acquisition to bash it successful beforehand of them.”

As of Sept. 27, 2022, Marlyne is acceptable to commencement her 3rd circular of chemotherapy astatine City of Hope successful Los Angeles, CA. “I person a question of emotion that comes,” she said “But it’s good not to person it each together. You can’t tangibly clasp onto fear. But I’m holding onto faith. I find caller spot to transportation connected each time due to the fact that of [my children]. I privation to spot them get joined 1 day. And I will.”

Her vocation has consisted of galore transgression and aesculapian dramas.

Marlyne Barrett astatine an event. (Laurent VU/SIPA/Shutterstock)

Some of her astir recognizable enactment includes her relation arsenic Nerese Campbell connected the HBO transgression drama, The Wire, from 2006 until 2008, her recurring relation arsenic Felicia Marquand successful the ineligible drama Damages, and of course, her relation arsenic Head Charge Nurse Maggie Lockwood successful the medical drama Chicago Med.

She’s continued to enactment connected ‘Chicago Med’ contempt her battle.

“I’ve had radical shave their heads connected acceptable to enactment me,” she said astir the supportive formed and crew. “I commencement an hr earlier to get my bearings earlier I commencement my day,” she explained portion adding that she sometimes takes naps and takes occasional days off. “Because of the mass, my mid-range is simply a antithetic size, truthful the costume section does an unthinkable job. Interestingly enough, my quality connected the amusement already wears a wig!”

“Work brings maine a batch of joyousness close now,” she added. “It brings maine a batch of reprieve to deliberation astir thing different than, ‘When is my adjacent chemo shift?’ and ‘How americium I going to hug my children?'”