Veteran comedian and SNL star Victoria Jackson reveals she is dying of inoperable cancer

Former Saturday Night Live star Victoria Jackson got candid about having an inoperable tumor, saying that she only has three years left to live.

The comedian, who was part of the SNL cast for 109 episodes from 1986 to 1992, delivered the somber message to her fans in a YouTube video shared on Thursday, August 15. In the video titled Is the Cancer Back? Jackson gave a health update as she sat in front of the camera, saying:

"Update on the cancer: They cannot operate and cut out the marble in my chest that is laying on my windpipe, and eventually would suffocate me to death."

The SNL alum mentioned that she's glad to live in the US and have a great medical team. She also shared the next step in her latest diagnosis, saying:

"They'e giving me a magic pill... It's based on ribociclib and it will shrink the marble, hopefully."

Victoria Jackson also shared in the video that she looked up the medication on Google and found out that people who take it have about 32.6 left to live. On the caption of her Instagram video, she mentioned 34.8 months.

The comedian was the go-to SNL cast member and impersonator of Zia Zia Gabor, Sally Struthers, and Roseanne Barr during her stint in the sketch show. She first opened up about having breast cancer in 2016, and earlier this week, Jackson shared a video on Instagram while she was at the hospital getting a CT scan. She can be heard saying that she considers her life a "Disney musical" as she prepares for the scan, which will help find out if the breast cancer cells have spread.

In the caption, the comedian shared that if her life were a musical, she would be "bursting out in a song" and begin tap dancing on top of the CT machine.

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Victoria Jackson said she's had a "fantastic life" amid news of her inoperable cancer

With her prognosis of 30 months left to live, or "something like that," Victoria Jackson appears hopeful about it, saying in the video that it's "great." According to the comedian, she's had a "fantastic life," although she also mentioned some of the other things she would like to do or experience before she passes.

Jackson said in the video that she wants to witness her grandson Jimmy's birth, which is due in October. The soon-to-be grandmother noted that she wants to see her daughter Aubrey have her baby and get to know her grandson a little before she goes.

Elsewhere in the video, the comedian recalled having the "weirdest thing" happen to her the other night while "laying in the dark in bed." She said that she "heard God say, 'Ready to come home?'" Victoria Jackson noted that "He didn't say it like, 'You're coming home now,' but for her, it was like God asking her to hang out.