Jeanette Lee.Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage
A single mother to three girls — Savannah, 10, Chloe, 11, and Cheyenne, 16 — Lee said in the release, “I intend to bring the same resolve I brought to the billiards table to this fight.”
“Jim Valvanoso eloquently told us to ‘Never give up.’ I owe it to my three young daughters to do exactly that,” she added.
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Jeanette Lee and her children.Go Fund Me
AGoFundMehas been created in Lee’s name, and its purpose is to “ensure that the girls are appropriately cared for and can afford to go to college.”
“Jeanette’s largest and most pressing concern is the well being of her three young girls,” the fundraiser’s description reads, in part. “The future care, well-being and education of her girls is the biggest cause of anxiety for her.”
It also went into more details about her diagnosis: “The cancer has fully metastasized into her lymph nodes and the prognosis is dire. At this stage, her doctors say she has a few months to a year left to live.”
“In typical Black Widow fashion, she has vowed tofight the progress of her diseaseas fiercely as possible with both chemotherapy, which has already begun, and a succession of upcoming surgeries,” the description continued.
Jeanette Lee in 2011.Jason Kempin/Getty
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Lee, a New York native, has also battled scoliosis since childhood — a condition that her longtime agent Tom George (who is organizing the GoFundMe) toldThe Washington Postmay have played a role in Lee not picking up on symptoms.
“She’s in a lot of pain all the time, anyway, so she didn’t notice any difference,” George said.
source: people.com
