Maine hospital says actress Valerie Harper has been released, is resting with
Bradford Kenney, government inventive director, says playhouse officers and audiences are inspired to listen to that she’s feeling higher. She is now enjoying her family’s company while resting at an undisclosed location.
Valerie Harper was hospitalized Wednesday in Maine shortly before a stage performance.
There’s been no official word from the Harper family on her condition. She agreed to go to the hospital, but had to be talked into it, Kenney said.
Harper has continued to work throughout her illness. At the time, she was given three to six months to live.
The Mary Tyler Moore alum has battled brain cancer and lung cancer. Sally Struthers, who plays Duchess Estonia Dulworth, said in a statement: “Valerie is feeling better today”. Nothing on Harper’s current condition has been made official.
Kenney said Harper wanted to do the show Wednesday night.
She has been performing recently in the musical Nice Work If You Can Get It at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine. Harper, who portrays ‘Nice Work’s Millicent Winter, only appears in Act Two of the musical, scheduled to run through August 15th.
Although Entertainment Tonight reported that the actress had fallen into a coma, the theatre said that is not the case. A source close to the situation tells ET exclusively, “Just know it’s very bad”. I think you just take each day and get the best out of it and do what you can and have fun.”She has been extremely candid about her health and mortality in recent years”.
The artistic director of the production told those waiting in the theater to see her that she had been taken away in an ambulance and wouldn’t be performing that night.
Harper has had numerous roles on Broadway, in movies and on TV. Later, she starred in “Rhoda“, a spin-off of the original series. In her later years she returned to her first love, the stage.
Harper also earned a 2010 Tony Award nomination for Looped.