Hollywood actor Stanley Tucci revealed that he was diagnosed with cancer three years ago and is currently in remission. He said that he was diagnosed with a tumor at the base of his tongue.

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The “Hunger Games” actor appeared in an interview with Virgin Atlantic’s in-flight magazine, Vera, in which he got candid about his health. 

“It was too big to operate, so they had to do high-dose radiation and chemo,” Tucci, 60, told Vera. “I’d vowed I’d never do anything like that, because my first wife died of cancer, and to watch her go through those treatments for years was horrible.”

Tucci was married to his first wife, Kate Spath-Tucci, for 14 years and had three children before she died in April 2009.  Her reason of death was breast cancer. He later married Felicity Blunt, the sister of actress Emily Blunt, in 2008 and had two children.

Tucci told Vera that the experience was challenging for his five children.

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“I had a feeding tube for six months. I could barely make it to the twins’ highschool graduation,” Tucci told Vera. Fortunately, Tucci added that the cancer is unlikely to return, and he is in remission.

“(Cancer) makes you more afraid and less afraid at the same time. I feel much older than I did before I was sick. But you still want to get ahead and get things done.”