In 1997, Julie Andrews, who is best known for her role in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, underwent a major operation to get a cyst removed from her vocal cord. And since the surgery, the 84-year-old revealed how the procedure permanently affected her singing voice.
In 1964, she made her debut in Mary Poppins and then acted in The Sound of Music the following year. She impressed people with both her singing and acting talents.
She won an Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
However, after undergoing surgery to remove vocal cord nodules, the Torn Curtain actress had permanent damage to her voice.
She told AARP The Magazine, “When I woke up from an operation to remove a cyst on my vocal cord, my singing voice was gone. I went into a depression. It felt like I’d lost my identity.”
It was in 1997 when Andrews first noticed an issue with her voice in a Broadway show. Shortly after that, she underwent the surgery to get the “non-cancerous” nodules from her vocal cord at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital.
After 10 years of the surgery, the star revealed that she did not have nodules or cancer; however, she was having some kind of muscular striation on her vocal cords. Vocal cord nodules are outgrowths or tissue that grow on the vocal cord.
