Kelly Hyland from Dance Moms shares her breast cancer diagnosis
When Paige’s mom asked them to hop on a call, Paige immediately sensed that the chat would be tough. “I had an instant gut feeling something was off,” she shared with E! News. “As soon as she told us the bad news, I felt like I was in shock and then quickly hit with a whirlwind of emotions. Not only was I scared, I was angry, sad, and confused why this would happen to someone as amazing as my mother.”
However, the prevailing feeling for Paige was fear, as she recalled the trauma of watching her maternal grandmother battle cancer. “We lost my Nana to cancer in 2019,” Paige explained, “so I understood the long road we had ahead of us and it pained me to imagine my mother having to endure that same feeling.”
Both Paige and Brooke were in lockstep in their understanding of the challenges ahead. “We watched my Nana battle cancer for years so I knew that we were at the start of a very long and challenging road,” echoed Brooke. “I hated that I had to watch another important person in my life go through it.”