AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Jenna Fischer chose her kids over a TV career — then fought breast cancer on her own terms
Jenna Fischer, the actress who played Pam Beesly on NBC's "The Office" for nine seasons, says the punishing hours of network television drove her away from Hollywood, a decision that gave her back her family life just years before a breast cancer diagnosis tested her in ways no script ever could. Fischer laid out the […] The post Jenna Fischer chose her kids over a TV career — then fought breast cancer on her own terms appeared first on American Almanac .
Jenna Fischer, the actress who played Pam Beesly on NBC's "The Office" for nine seasons, says the punishing hours of network television drove her away from Hollywood, a decision that gave her back her family life just years before a breast cancer diagnosis tested her in ways no script ever could. Fischer laid out the timeline on a recent episode of the podcast "Dinner's On Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson." After "The Office" wrapped in 2013, she took the lead in ABC's comedy "Splitting Up Together" in 2018. The gig nearly broke her. She described workweeks that stretched to 65 or 70 hours while her children were still small, and she made a blunt calculation about what the job was costing her at home. Fischer told Ferguson : "The hours were…Open