“I just kept saying to her, ‘Birdie, you’re just not in the movie where your mom dies your senior year of high school. That’s just not the movie that you’re in. I promise you.’ [Cricket’s] reaction … was like, ‘OK. You’re going to be fine?’ And I was like, ‘I’m totally going to be fine.’ And she’s like, ‘OK.’”

Busy Philipps · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-26

Philipps remembered reassuring her two children, Birdie and Cricket, about her brain tumor diagnosis.