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Sheryl Crow Says Breakup With Lance Armstrong Coincided With Her Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Her May 19 podcast account has renewed media attention by contrasting her experience with Armstrong’s earlier explanation of the split

Overview

  • Crow told Bobby Bones’s podcast on Tuesday, May 19 that her five-month engagement to Lance Armstrong ended the same week she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
  • She said she endured about nine months of radiation while grieving the split and that she later learned he was seeing a "really famous actress" during her treatment.
  • Armstrong’s 2009 memoir frames the 2006 breakup as a mismatch over marriage and children, which differs from Crow’s emphasis on the emotional toll of simultaneous illness and separation.
  • Multiple entertainment outlets ran stories summarizing Crow’s remarks and reported that Armstrong’s representatives were not immediately available for comment.
  • Crow says that after her cancer went into remission she adopted two sons, moved to focus on family life, and reframed her priorities following that period of illness and loss.