Stacey Morrison speaks out about breast cancer article's misleading headline

Publish Date: Wednesday, 7 November 2018, 9:30AM

Stacey Morrison is a big advocate for breast cancer awareness, and it’s a cause that is near and dear to her heart.

She recently featured in a Woman’s Day piece about losing her mother to breast cancer and how that experience shaped her own life.

However, after learning a headline was tweaked from the original printed story, to make it seem as if she were nonchalant about mastectomies, Stace felt she needed to address the issue on air.

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"I was upset to hear from a woman who is a breast cancer survivor, newly, [who told me] that she thought once the article went online – and things can change after that, the headline changed … she felt hurt, she felt like that was minimizing how big a deal a mastectomy is," Stace said.

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"[She told me about] all the terrible complications that she’s had, how hard it is and she was saying in a really loving way … that she had been hurt by that.

"All I could do is say 'I’m really sorry'. I hear what she’s saying and I said to her, 'I’m really sorry that you were upset by this and thank you for seeing that that wasn’t actually what I said' and that’s what happens with headlines."

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"I hate that I added to some of her disappointment," Stace continued.

"I just want you to know if you are a survivor you have nothing but my huge respect and love and hope for your best healing."

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