Kirstie Alley

LOS ANGELES — (AP) — Kirstie Alley, a two-time Emmy winner whose roles on the TV megahit “Cheers” and in the “Look Who's Talking” films made her one of the ...

The family for Kirstie Alley announced Monday that the actress died following a battle with cancer.

Travolta married actress Kelly Preston in 1991. Alley told Wooten that Preston put her foot down about her flirting with her husband. “Kelly came up to me and ...

"We are sad to inform you that our incredible, fierce and loving mother has passed away after a battle with cancer, only recently discovered," her children ...

Stunned Hollywood stars including John Travolta, Parker Stevenson and Kelsey Grammer reacted as news spread of Kirstie Alley's death from cancer.

John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis and more are sharing their memories of Kirstie Alley after the "Cheers" star died on Monday at age 71.

“I’ve not spoke w/ her forever, but have her to thank for launching my career. “She helped me buy onesies for my family that year for Christmas.” She told me I was funny every single day on ‘Veronica’s Closet,’ and I believed her,” Carradine wrote. Kirstie Alley R.I.P.” Alley’s death was announced on her official social media accounts by her children, True and Lillie Parker, who wrote: “We are sad to inform you that our incredible, fierce and loving mother has passed away after a battle with cancer, only recently discovered. Actor Ever Carradine thanked Alley for kickstarting her career.

Kirstie Alley was diagnosed with colon cancer before she died. Her family says the cancer was only recently discovered. Doctors share symptoms and risk ...

[Lawrence Meadows](https://www.today.com/health/craig-melvin-remembers-his-brother-who-died-colon-cancer-t204040), the older brother of TODAY’s Craig Melvin, died at 43 in December of 2020, four years after he had been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. [Quentin Oliver Lee](https://www.today.com/health/health/phantom-opera-star-quentin-oliver-lee-34-dies-colon-cancer-rcna60141), who starred in a touring production of the musical “The Phantom of the Opera.” He died of colon cancer on Thursday, Dec. Alley was vocal about her [struggles with weight](https://www.today.com/health/kirstie-alley-talks-50-pound-weight-loss-time-its-different-1D80404553). His wife urged people to get stool-based tests and colonoscopies to catch the disease early, before it can spread. Don’t put it off any longer, please get screened,” [Simone Ledward Boseman said in 2021](https://www.today.com/health/chadwick-boseman-s-wife-warns-about-colon-cancer-please-get-t213216). and is expected to kill more than 52,000 people this year, according to the [American Cancer Society](https://www.cancer.org/cancer/colon-rectal-cancer/about/key-statistics.html). [American Cancer Society](https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/colorectal-cancer-rates-higher-in-african-americans-rising-in-younger-people.html). He was 34. On Monday, Dec. [the American Cancer Society noted](https://www.cancer.org/cancer/colon-rectal-cancer/causes-risks-prevention/risk-factors.html).

Kirstie Alley, who died Monday of cancer at age 71, was an outspoken defender of Scientology, speaking out many times over the years about her religion.

“When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to try to become an actress. I now fully have the confront that puts me right up that damn confront scale with other Scientology Freedom Fighters!” (In Scientology, “confronting” is being able to face someone or something without avoiding the person or thing.) [Look Who’s Talking](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-13-ca-93-story.html)” star wrote in her memoir, “The Art of Men (I Prefer Mine Al Dente).” “It’s actually analytical and easy to understand. It was 1979, she was using all sorts of other drugs at the time and was, in her words, “a hot mess.” So the first thing I hoped to get out of ‘Dianetics’ was a certainty of my own truths, and to become honest. Steps toward that goal, and OT8 above it, include counseling sessions, advanced courses, conquering the “reactive mind” and much more. Every day I worked on some part of my screwed-up life until the anxiety dropped away,” she wrote. Alley said she had one Scientology counseling session and never wanted to do drugs again, though she admitted that sort of result didn’t happen so quickly for many people. “All religions,” she said, “sound a little wacky if you take them literally and if they don’t happen to be your own.” [died Monday of colon cancer](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-12-05/acctor-kirstie-alley-dies-of-cancer) at age 71, was a staunch Scientologist for more than 40 years. But Kirstie Alley’s identity off-screen was largely tied to being an outspoken envoy and defender of Scientology, the controversial and heavily criticized faith founded by sci-fi writer L. When a celebrity dies, his or her religion is rarely a big part of the story.

Long before the current body-positivity movement, Ms. Alley made people think about fatness on TV, often at her own expense.

Ms. And once again, Ms. As recently as October of this year, a profile of Ms. Yet media coverage of Ms. Over and over, she agreed to divulge details of her diet, her calorie count, her exact weight. Two years later, Ms. Maintaining control of her weight would prove a never-ending battle. Alley proclaimed she’d given up her habit of “eating with wild abandon.” She told People that, just before joining Jenny Craig, she’d asked herself, “I’m old. Beneath both the gorgeous and the funny, though, a strain of melancholy increasingly crept into Ms. She starred in her own sitcom, “Fat Actress,” documenting her character’s (and hence her own) journey to fitness. She wore her dark hair in cascading waves that fell, à la Veronica Lake, over one eye. Distinguished Chair for English at Southern Methodist University and the author of “Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History.”