STANLEY TUCCI revealed he battled cancer three years ago — a decade after losing his first wife to the disease.

“The Hunger Games” star shared his past health scare in a new interview with Virgin Atlantic’s Vera magazine, explaining that he had a tumor on the base of his tongue.

“It was too big to operate, so they had to do high-dose radiation and chemo,” he shared. “I’d vowed I’d never do anything like that, because my first wife died of cancer, and to watch her go through those treatments for years was horrible.”

Of cancer, Tucci shared that it “makes you more afraid and less afraid at the same time. I feel much older than I did before I was sick. But you still want to get ahead and get things done.”

In 2016, “The Lovely Bones” star opened up about struggling to care for his wife while she was fighting cancer, explaining to The Guardian that he feels he owes her an apology.

“We tried everything we could do to save her,” he said. “I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away.” (SD-Agencies)