Ben Stiller Cancer Crisis — Kept Deadly Diagnosis Secret

Ben Stiller has revealed that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer at the age of 48 — keeping the diagnosis secret from Hollywood! The movie star finally revealed his 2014 diagnosis while talking to Howard Stern on his Sirius radio show — saying he had "immediately aggressive" that required surgery two months after his doctors gave him the bad news in June 2014.

Ben Stiller has revealed that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer at the age of 48 — keeping the diagnosis secret from Hollywood! The movie star finally revealed his 2014 diagnosis while talking to Howard Stern on his Sirius radio show — saying he had "immediately aggressive" that required surgery two months after his doctors gave him the bad news in June 2014.

The announcement on Stern's show wasn't spontaneous, though. The actor — who had his prostate removed — timed his health confession with an online internet essay promoting early testing for the disease.

Ben kept his illness a secret, but the formerly busy actor took some time off after the operation. He followed 2014's "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb" with just a few television appearances before bombing with "Zoolander 2" at the start of 2016. Ben was declared cancer-free in September 2014 — with this photo taken just a month after his surgery.

Before that, Ben reached out to his "Meet The Parents" costar Robert De Niro, adding that the actor had shown up when the comic Googled other men who had survived prostate cancer. "One of the key learnings," added Ben in his online essay, "is not to Google 'people who died of prostate cancer' immediately after being diagnosed with prostate cancer!"