‘Baywatch’ star Nicole Eggert breaks down in tears over ‘cancer tattoo’: ‘a constant reminder’

Nicole Eggert shared a raw moment about her breast cancer battle.

The “Baywatch” alum, 52, broke down crying in her car over her changing appearance, revealing she’s learning to live with the unexpected new scars.

“Okay so I came out of my CT scan, mapping – as they say – for my radiation treatment and when they said they were going to tattoo me, I didn’t realize it was a real, real tattoo, so I got tattooed! ” Eggert told his followers in an emotional Instagram video on November 20.

The actress’ voice broke as she admitted, “And it’s minor, it’s nothing but the point, but boy, every step of the process is never going to let you forget it, there’s always going to be a constant reminder.”

Eggert’s mood lightened as he joked, “So yeah, I have tattoos. My mom would be really proud of my neck tattoo, but it’s okay, okay.”

He said that “people have been great” although he is “not looking forward to it yet, whatever, but I got through that part and the rest I have to work on myself and how I’m going to do it. Get through it and this is what I have.” Ignore the new tattoos.”

Eggert had previously become emotional when he explained radiation was going on in the future.

“They’ll do a CT scan and they call it imaging and tattooing my organs, so that when they shoot radiation into me, they’ll hopefully miss most of the vital organs,” she said before the appointment.

“They’re going to hurt some of them to what they say is a degree, but hopefully not a harmful degree,” Eggert shared of the physical upset.

“What I’m struggling with is I know the damage radiation does, my dad had it in his brain, he had a brain tumor and after the first treatment, he wasn’t the same person.”

The “Baywatch” star recently gave an update on her health battle after being diagnosed with stage 2 cribriform carcinoma breast cancer in December 2023.

“I’m fine,” Eggert told PEOPLE at the “After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun” premiere in Los Angeles on Aug. 26. Maybe surgery.”

“And it’s been a long wait and it’s something that I don’t really understand and nobody really talks about,” he added. “But the gray area is the hardest because you don’t know what’s going on and you just, when I’m doing treatment, I feel like I’m doing something productive.”

He added, “So it felt positive and I was like, OK, I’m doing something positive. And now that it’s nothing, it’s like, well wait a minute. We have to get this out. So it’s, it’s just frustrating. .”

Eggert, who played Summer Queen on the Beach Babe series, created a four-part ABC News Studios docuseries about “Baywatch.”

He appeared with several of his co-stars for the premiere months after his cancer diagnosis.

Carmen Electra, Alexandra Paul, Jeremy Jackson, Brandi Ledford, David Chokachi, Brande Roderick, Traci Bingham, Jason Simmons, Erica Eleniak, Michael Bergin, Nancy Whalen and Michael Newman all supported the documentaries.

Pamela Anderson (CJ Parker) and David Hasselhoff (Mitch Buchannon) were not at the premiere, nor did they participate in the Hulu project that began streaming on August 28.