Jared Kushner Reveals He Privately Battled Cancer While Working at the White House

Jared Kushner is speaking out about his health.

In an excerpt from his memoir recently published by The New York Times, the son-in-law and former senior advisor to former President Donald Trump revealed that he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2019 while working in the White House.

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“On the morning that I traveled to Texas to attend the opening of a Louis Vuitton factory, White House physician Sean Conley pulled me into the medical cabin on Air Force One,” he writes in Breaking History: A White House Memoir, per the outlet. “‘Your test results came back from Walter Reed,’ he said. ‘It looks like you have cancer. We need to schedule a surgery right away.’”

Jared went on to say that he kept the diagnosis as private as possible and initially asked the doctor to keep the news a secret, particularly from his family. “Please don’t tell anyone—especially my wife or my father-in-law,” he recalled telling the physician, adding that he later told his wife Ivanka Trump.

“This was a personal problem and not for public consumption,” he writes. “I didn’t tell anyone at the White House—including the president.”

Despite his privacy, President Trump ended up finding out about his surgery, which necessitated that he remove a “substantial part” of his thyroid.

“The day before the surgery, Trump called me into the Oval Office and motioned for his team to close the door,” he recalled. “‘Are you nervous about the surgery?’ he asked,” to which Jared replied, “How do you know about it?”

Jared says Trump told him, “I’m the president. I know everything. I understand that you want to keep these things quiet. I like to keep things like this to myself as well. You’ll be just fine. Don’t worry about anything with work. We have everything covered here.”

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