WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 24: U.S. first lady Jill Biden (R) holds hands with singer Mary J. Blige during an event on fighting cancer at the State Dining Room of the White House on October 24, 2022 in Washington, DC. First lady Jill Biden held the event to launch the American Cancer Society’s National Roundtables on Breast and Cervical Cancer, as part of the Biden Administration's Cancer Moonshot. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Mary J. Blige visited the White House on Monday and gave an emotional speech about losing family to cancer at the kickoff event for several roundtables with organizations like The American Cancer Society.
After the speech, Blige was seen being comforted by First Lady Dr. Jill Biden as the two of them held hands.
“I lost aunts, not an aunt, but several family members to breast cancer,” Blige mentioned. “Grandmother to cervical cancer… and it just keeps going on and on.”
The singer said she wished that her family had options for screenings to go get before it was too late, and noted the role of medical racism in her talk.
“Black women are more likely to be screened at lower resource facilities. And also experience longer intervals between detection, diagnosis and treatment,” Blige said.
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