After his character Michael Baldwin went through a cancer battle on 'The Young and the Restless,' actor Christian LeBlanc had one of his own in real life. Luckily, fans helped spot his tumor in time.
Truth and fiction can blur in strange ways. After Michael Baldwin (the character long portrayed by Christian LeBlanc onLeBlanc revealed that he recently had a bout with multiple myeloma, in
. Thankfully, he's now in total remission. As with all cancers, it's easier to fight multiple myeloma the sooner it's caught — and LeBlanc got some help with identifying it from"The fans caught it," LeBlanc said. "I was getting people saying, 'Your eye's a little Jim Carrey that way.'"When LeBlanc first started experiencing symptoms on set, he wasn't sure what the issue was.
"They put my wedding ring on, Lauren and Michael's wedding ring, and I put my hand down and the ring fell off without friction," LeBlanc remembered. "I said, well, what an odd thing. My nose started bleeding on set. Sometimes this eye kind of got a little wonky, because there was a tumor in the sinus cavity. If I hadn't gone in for an eye exam, it might have progressed more. It's a very fast cancer and that is the danger of it.
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