valerie is best known for playing rhoda morgue beganstern. mary tyler moore s best friend. would you like to go to it a funeral. yeah, thanks. what was it about rhoda relatable? everybody knew her. if she wasn t in their family she was definitely someone they knew. i don t feel strange in the least about going out with a divorced person. what do you mean divorced? he is married. now he s married. [ laughter ] for emmys and a golden globe later valerie tenned to work on tv and broadway. in 2009 she received life-changing news. valerie was diagnosed in lung cancer and 2013 it spread. now stepped into new role, survivor. in 2009 i got this cancer diagnosed which was such a shock. i have never smoked in my life. and, yet i have this. so valerie you are not teaming up with the american lung association and now teaming up with with the