{"id":5733,"date":"2026-03-23T14:13:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/simone-ledward-boseman-says-she-believed-chadwick-boseman-would-beat-cancer\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:13:56","slug":"simone-ledward-boseman-says-she-believed-chadwick-boseman-would-beat-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/simone-ledward-boseman-says-she-believed-chadwick-boseman-would-beat-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Simone Ledward Boseman Says She Believed Chadwick Boseman Would Beat Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Simone Ledward Boseman, the widow of Chadwick Boseman, revealed how she \u201cfelt sure\u201d he would beat cancer.<\/p>\n<p>In an in-depth interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/health\/news\/chadwick-boseman-wife-colon-cancer-today-interivew-rcna263945\">Today<\/a>, Simone recalled Chadwick\u2019s relentless spirit and his final days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe both felt very sure that he would make it through,\u201d Simone shared.\u201cIt was going to be a challenging moment, but something that he would come out on the other side of and be fine. They would do a surgery, he would do some chemo afterward, and he would be OK. There wasn\u2019t much talk at all of the possibility of him not being OK on the other side of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simone also revealed that they discovered Chadwick\u2019s stage 3 cancer diagnosis in 2016, and she married him months before his passing in August 2020.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Simone Ledward Boseman Opens Up About Chadwick Boseman\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q2VROicXiV0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know that he was experiencing anything until he had already been to the doctor twice,\u201d she explained. \u201cIt all seemed to come about very suddenly. It was a matter of weeks that he started not feeling well.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-chadwick-wanted-to-keep-his-cancer-diagnosis-private\">CHADWICK WANTED TO KEEP HIS CANCER DIAGNOSIS PRIVATE<\/h2>\n<p>Eventually, Chadwick\u2019s cancer progressed to stage 4, and he decided to keep his health status private.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChad was not a person who would have wanted to be treated any differently because people knew that he was sick,\u201d she explained. \u201cThe work is what was keeping him moving, so he didn\u2019t want the work to suffer just because he was sick. He didn\u2019t want to be handled with kid gloves because people thought he wasn\u2019t going to be able to do his job and slide underneath falling cabinets and run across fields.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simone said that thinking that Chadwick was not going to make it was \u201clike a betrayal of faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of moments where I look back on that time and wish that we had been able to find a way to talk about that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Although he was receiving treatment, Chadwick continued to work throughout the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe work is what was keeping him moving. So he didn\u2019t want the work to suffer just because he was sick,\u201d Simone said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t want to be handled with kid gloves because people thought he wasn\u2019t going to be able to do his job and slide underneath falling cabinets and run across fields.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simone Ledward Boseman, the widow of Chadwick Boseman, revealed how she \u201cfelt sure\u201d he would beat cancer. 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