Jillian Barberie Shares Her Battle With Breast Cancer

LOS ANGELES, CA — Longtime Los Angeles media personality Jillian Barberie is battling an aggressive breast cancer, she announced Thursday.

The former Good Day L.A." and "Good Day Live" fixture told fans she has an aggressive plan to beat the disease. "Results back," she tweeted Thursday. "It's cancer in my right breast but also it has spread to my lymph node.

"Double mastectomy and they said I need chemo for the lymph," wrote the 52-year-old Barberie, who now co-hosts The Drive Home on KABC-AM 790 and maintains a lifestyle blog. "Thanks for coming on this journey with me!"

Barberie said the most difficult aspect of her battle with cancer has been what to tell her two children Rocco, 8, and Ruby, 11.

“The hardest part about a cancer diagnosis is telling your kids” she tweeted, adding that she turned to reality Tv Dr. Drew Pinsky for help.

“I called dr. Drew to help me with what to say. I’m not going to sugar coat it but I also don’t want to scare them,” she wrote.

Before the biopsy results came in Barberie told her fans she'd keep them in the loop.

"Biopsy in the a.m. ... Will share the events as they unfold," she tweeted Monday. "Millions of women go through this daily. I've got a plan for the results either way. So many women keep this a secret for their own personal reasons. I have decided to document it all and make it public."

City News Service contributed to this report. CULVER CITY, CA - OCTOBER 07: Jillian Barberie attends Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation's 'Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween' special screening at Sony Pictures Studios on October 7, 2018 in Culver City, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images)