Paramount chair Shari Redstone confirms thyroid cancer diagnosis

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News/Reuters

June 5, 2025, 10:45 PM EDT / Source: Reuters


Paramount Global chair Shari Redstone was diagnosed with thyroid cancer earlier this spring, a spokesperson for Redstone said in a statement to Reuters on Thursday.

After feeling fatigue and other symptoms, Redstone sought medical help about two months ago and was diagnosed with thyroid cancer the next day. Surgeons removed her thyroid gland, but some cancer cells remained as they had spread to her vocal cords, according to the New York Times, which first reported the news on Thursday.

“She is maintaining all professional and philanthropic activities throughout her treatment, which is ongoing. She and her family are grateful that her prognosis is excellent,” Redstone‘s spokesperson Molly Morse said.

Redstone kept her diagnosis private, sharing it with only a tight circle of relatives, close friends, and advisers including David Ellison, the Skydance head and tech heir, whose company is set to purchase Paramount and the Redstone family’s stake, NYT added. The diagnosis comes against the backdrop of Paramount preparing for an $8.4 billion merger with Skydance Media, which still requires U.S. FCC approval.

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[hlthe2b]

1. Sorry Shari--'don't wish you ill, but thyroid cancer is one of the most treatable and best prognosis cancers

with many/most living a normal lifespan and even later detected cases typically responding to therapy, such that even then, a 5-year (minimal) survival rate is over 98.5%.

So, while I'd not wish your condition on anyone, this strikes me as a bad-faith attempt at sympathy for what is a destructive and very cowardly course under your leadership for CBS/Paramount toward Trump's obvious attempts to extort/blackmail. That merger ought to be put off and leadership of the former transferred to someone who won't sell them out IMHO (and while you, Shari SHOULD get the care you need).

[sinkingfeeling]

2. People still die from thyroid cancer, about 2300 a year in the US. Hers has spread and will possibly require radiation

treatment. Radiation to the throat and mouth is amongst the worst. I've been there.

[hlthe2b]

3. Please reread. Nowhere did I say otherwise. I'm glad you are responding and wish you only the best.

[Javaman]

4. she's been trying to appease the orange asshole with a 15 million dollar fealty tribute

but the orange asshole is having none of it. he want's 25 million.

this all stems from the orange asshole outrageous claim about the Kamala Harris interview on 60 minutes. he feels "slighted"

and redstone, is doing all of this because of money. she wants to sell paramount.

she's willing to flush reputation and legacy all for money and appeasement.

she is like her father, a truly horrible human being.

it's horrible to get cancer, but you know, karma is a bitter pill.

[wolfie001]

5. tRUMP can smell blood in the water now

Crazy times being led by that lunatic imbecile.

[delisen]

6. Business Behemoths unlikely to be operate a free press

There is an entertainment industry and a free press. They are separate things.

Likewise a government and a business are separate things