Welcome back! Elisabeth Hasselbeck returned to Fox and Friends on Friday, Nov. 14, where she revealed the reason behind her month-long absence.
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Hasselbeck, 37, told viewers on the conservative morning news program that she had quite the health scare when a tumor was found in her abdomen. Doctors, initially fearing that it could be cancerous, told the former View co-host that it had to be removed by month's end. Later, the tumor was determined as not cancerous.
"I had a scary week when we didn’t know what the results were," Hasselbeck said. "But I'm okay…everything came back okay. Surgery’s not fun, but it is necessary to find out if you have something really terrible."
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The TV personality then expressed gratitude to those who supported her before and after the procedure.
Finding my purpose in God and not in work!
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