This 1980s TV star looks very different now that she’s taken a break from fame after a tragedy.
Tracy Nelson had three different kinds of cancer. She played Sister Stephanie on Father Dowling Mysteries.
It was terrible that the actress was told she had stage two Hodgkin’s lymphoma just one month after getting married to William R. Moses in 1987.
As a cruel irony, her famous musician father Ricky Nelson died in an airplane crash on New Year’s Eve, a year before she was diagnosed.
She was no longer sick after surgery and had radiation and chemotherapy in Los Angeles.
She beat the disease, but in 2005, after being hurt by radiation, she was told she had thyroid cancer.
After five years, she was told she had breast cancer and had both mastectomy and full reconstruction.
She stopped being in the spotlight and now works to support cancer research. She used to be the spokesperson for The Lymphoma Research Foundation of America.
Tracy, 61, received the “Lifesaver Award” from the group and the “Jill Ireland Award” from the Amie Karen Cancer Fund for Children.
After ten years of marriage, she and William broke up in 1997.
Remington Elizabeth Moses is their daughter together. In 2001, she had a son named Elijah Nelson Clark with Chris Clark.
