Christina Applegate the star of Samantha Who, is speaking out for the first time about her recent breast cancer scare. She was recently diagnosed with cancer and had to a have double mastectomy. Scary! The beautiful actress is doing the interview circuit for magazines and television to talk about her ordeal.

US Weekly reports:

Christina Applegate, who chose to have both of her breasts removed after one was found to contain cancerous lumps, will undergo breast reconstruction surgery over the next eight months.

“I didn’t want to go back to the doctors every four months for testing and squishing and everything,” she told Good Morning America in an interview that aired Tuesday.

“I just wanted to kind of get rid of this whole thing for me,” she said of the prophylactic double mastectomy. “This was the choice that I made and it was a tough one.

“My decision, after looking at all the treatment plans that were possibilities for me, the only one that seemed the most logical and the one that was going to work for me was to have a bilateral mastectomy,” she explained.

A couple of months ago, Christina suffered another emotional blow when her on/off again boyfriend Lee Grivas, died of a drug overdose. Fortunately, she has friends and family to support and love her during this time. We wish her the best!