United Kingdom, Dec. 11 -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus felt "backed into a corner" to reveal her cancer diagnosis.

The 64-year-old actress revealed her stage 2 breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, and she admitted at the time she wasn't necessarily ready to open up about her health battle, but felt like she needed to say something because work on her show Veep was being postponed for a year during her treatment.

She told Amy Poehler's Good Hang podcast: "Well, I was kind of backed into a corner on that one because we had to shut our show down. "It's funny how that worked out because normally I would not have done that. I'm very private.

"But because we had to shut Veep down for a year, I had to say it. 250 people weren't going to be working. So I ...