Thanksgiving Grandma Wanda Dench Shares Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Wanda Dench is opening up about a health battle.

The Arizona grandmother that went viral after she accidentally invited Jamal Hinton to Thanksgiving with her family in 2016, recently shared that she is battling breast cancer. Jamal took to X (formally known as Twitter) on Oct. 16, to share a written memo on behalf of Wanda.

“Here is a special message from Wanda,” Jamal captioned his tweet, which included the selfie Wanda and Jamal took during their first meeting. The 67-year-old began her message with sharing that despite her current health battle, her and Jamal will honor their tradition.

“We still plan on getting together for Thanksgiving next month,” she wrote. “As we have every year.”

As Wanda shared, “Earlier this year I came down with bronchitis and had a CT scan to check out my lungs. That’s when a mass in my breast was detected and they suggested I get a mammogram and that verified I had breast cancer. I have been currently going through chemotherapy.”