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In New York to visit friends and catch up on the latest Broadway shows, Hairspray's original Tony Award-winning leading lady Marissa Jaret Winokur (now based in Los Angeles) took the opportunity to make an appearance on FOX TV's The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet (the same day that former American Idol finalist Jessica Sierra was on hand) to talk about her battle with—and survival from—cervical cancer. Though she first tested positive for abnormal cells during Hairspray's pre-Broadway opening, at the time Winokur kept her health situation private. "I didn't want to jeopardize my opportunity to play the biggest role of my life, or to be known as 'the cancer girl,'" Winokur now says. "On top of that, I felt so uneducated about everything. I didn't know anything about cervical cancer or its cause—the human papillomavirus, or HPV. I didn't even know wh