Suzanne, a cancer survivor, credits holistic medicine with saving her life. She is against the use of chemotherapy to fight cancer. Joosten, on the other hand, was diagnosed with a second bout of lung cancer in September and finds Suzanne advice distressing and “highly irresponsible.”

“Don’t even start me on that. I think it’s highly irresponsible for her to promote alternative therapy,” the 69-year-old actress said on Sirius XM OutQ’s The Derek and Romaine Show on Thursday. “I would never dream, even as a former nurse – which I was for 10 years – of proposing treatment protocols, one over another.”

“She can eat all the fucking mushrooms she wants,” she added.

It’s always so funny when grannies use foul language. Luvs it!

Kathryn — who won an Emmy for her role on The West Wing — defeated a previous battle with the disease in 2001.

The Dirty Dancing star died last week after a nearly two year battle with the disease. Shortly after, Somers came under fire for comments she made about Swayze in an interview with Toronto’s National Post.


“They took this beautiful man and they basically put poison in him,” Somers told National Post columnist Shinan Govani. “Why couldn’t they have built him up nutritionally and gotten rid of the toxins in his body?”

Somers – who used holistic methods to treat her breast cancer in 2001 – responded to incident on her website Monday.

“In a casual conversation at a private party (with someone who never identified himself as a reporter) at the Toronto Film Festival last week, I was asked about this beloved actor. It was never my intention to make an official statement about his passing,” Suzanne wrote. “I was not informed or aware I was being interviewed. I would never have been so insensitive as to offer a public statement so close to his untimely passing. I sincerely apologize if my comment has caused any additional pain to his family during this difficult time. I send my deepest condolences for their loss.”

The public rebuttal hasn’t stopped Whoopi from taking Suzanne to task over her remarks.

“In case she doesn’t know, Patrick did everything and went everywhere to try and stay healthy as long as he could,” The View co-host said of her Ghost co-star on Wednesday. “That he’s been gone a week and this statement came out is bad timing and bad taste and Suzanne, you know better,” Whoopi continued. “And I’m not sure that’s not what you meant to do, but you should have thought about it”

Swayze, 57, died on September 14 after a nearly two year battle against pancreatic cancer, likely brought on by years of cigarette smoking.

The former Three’s Company star gave her opinion on the Ghost star’s death while speaking at a party for Tom Ford’s movie, A Single Man, at the Toronto Film Festival last Thursday. In a new interview with Toronto National Post columnist Shinan Govani , Suzanne — who has a book coming out on cancer — said:

“They took this beautiful man and they basically put poison in him. Why couldn’t they have built him up nutritionally and gotten rid of the toxins in his body?”

In 2001, the Thighmaster frontwoman revealed she was battling breast cancer. After having surgery to remove the lump followed by radiation treatment, she refused chemotherapy against the advice of her doctors in favor of alternative treatment.

“I hate to be this controversial,” she continued. “I’m a singer-dancer-comedienne. But we have an epidemic going on, and I have to say it.”

Actress and health advocate Suzanne Somers talked about her new book Breakthrough: Eight Steps to Wellness with TODAY on September 10.

Recognizing that many of us feel we have hit the wall with conven­tional medicine, anti-aging is the likely outcropping to move medicine forward. At present its numbers are small but growing steadily. Break­through medicine treats people and patients like individuals who have their own special needs. It brilliantly brings together the personal one-on-­one commitment we got from the medical community decades ago cou­pled with the cutting-edge technology of today.

Cancer survivor Suzanne Somers has written an open letter to lend her support to cancer-stricken actress Christina Applegate. The 36-year-old Samantha Who? star announced her battle with breast cancer last week.

In the letter released to PEOPLE Magazine, Suzanne writes:

Dear Christina,

Sincerely,
Suzanne Somers

Suzanne Somers was caught trying to sell more than polyester dresses and costume jewelry on the Home Shopping Network (HSN) this week.

Suzanne Somers on Wednesday Ellen.