'Mob Wives' Star Big Ang Talks Cancer Crisis on DR. OZ Today

You know Big Ang as the larger-than-life, tough-talking, fun-loving friend on Mob Wives. This is a side of her you've never seen. She only allowed our cameras to follow her very personal and deeply moving battle with Stage 4 lung and brain cancer. From diagnosis to treatment, an intimate and revealing look at a woman determined to survive. Big Ang's appearance on THE DR. OZ SHOW airs today, February 16, 2016

On how she felt the moment the doctors gave her the diagnosis, Big Ang shares: "I was like, I couldn't hear, what they were saying. I couldn't even understand. I felt like I was deaf. 'You have stage four brain cancer and we don't know how this happened.' I'm like, 'I can't hear. I just can't even hear this.' They said that you have to--they're like, 'We're sorry, we don't know but now you have to go through another doctor, you have to find a brain doctor, a lung, an oncology, a chemo.' I was like, 'Oh, this is going too fast for me.' Now I'm just hysterical."

On how she's coping with her new diagnosis, Big Ang says: "I stay positive. I try to stay positive. I look at my kids and my grandchildren and I know how much they need me. My kids, my daughter lives with me with her kids and her husband so I'm very close to my grandchildren. My son's kids always sleep over."

Photo Credit: Sony Pictures Television

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