Sheryl Crow recalled getting her breast cancer diagnosis the "same week" she and Lance Armstrong split
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The singer-songwriter also said during that time she discovered the former professional cyclist was seeing a "really famous actress"
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Crow and Armstrong split in 2006
Sheryl Crowrecalled a difficult time in her life.
Duringthe Tuesday, May 19 episodeofThe Bobbycast, the "Soak Up the Sun" hitmaker reflected on receiving her breast cancer diagnosis and going through heartbreak.
Crow, now 64, reflected on being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2026 and splitting with her then-fiancéLance Armstrongthe same week.
"I was engaged. I had three beautiful step-children. I wanted to have kids with this person. We split. In the same week that we split, I got diagnosed with breast cancer, and I found out he was seeing a really famous actress," she recalled.
At the time, Crow said she went through "about nine months of radiation and grieving and anger."
"I had a really stoic oncologist who literally looked like my grandmother, but one of the things that she said to me was, 'I've had a thousand women come in with cancer, don't miss out on the lesson,'" she said.
Crow realized, amid her breast cancer diagnosis, that she was "a caretaker," which made her realize she was the last person she took care of at the end of the day.
"It took my life screeching to a halt to get to a place to go, 'Okay, who am I? And why am I doing what I'm doing? Do I love what I'm doing? What am I supposed to be doing?" she asked herself.
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PEOPLE reached out to a rep for Armstrong for comment.
Crow and Armstrong got engaged in October 2005 and split in February 2006.
The Texas-born athlete, now 54, has since remarried,tying the knot with Anna Hansen Armstrongin August 2022. They share two children, son Max and daughter Olivia. He shares three children,son Lukeand twin daughters Grace and Isabelle, with his first wife, Kristin Richard.
Crow has two sons whom she adopted: Wyatt, 19, and Levi, 15.
In a 2019interview with PEOPLE, Crow reflected on ending her engagement to Armstrong amid her breast cancer diagnosis.
“When I was diagnosed and my relationship fell apart, people were camped outside trying to get that picture of Sheryl Crow at her lowest moment. I just lost all faith in humankind,” she said at the time.
Crow continued, “But I licked my wounds. I started feeling like, ‘I'm at a point in my life where I need to manifest something more realistic.'”
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