Amanda Peet came to terms with her breast cancer diagnosis by putting pen to paper. "I didn't really have a strategy or a plan when I started writing," Peet, 54, exclusively told Us Weekly at the PaleyFest panel for Apple TV+'s Your Friends & Neighbors on Saturday, April 11, referring to her recent essay in The New Yorker. "It just seemed, like, maybe part of how I was coping with what was happening." Peet publicly revealed her health battle in a New Yorker article late last month, confirming that she was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer "last fall.