The Big Bang Theory actress Kate Micucci has had surgery after being diagnosed with lung cancer despite having “never smoked a cigarette in my life”.

The 43-year-old US actress and comedian shared a video of herself on TikTok lying in a hospital bed, joking that she was posting a “SickTok”.

“I’m in the hospital but it’s because I had lung cancer surgery yesterday, they caught it really early,” she said in the clip.

“It’s pretty weird because I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life so it was a surprise but also, I guess it happens.

“And so the greatest news is they caught it early, they got it out, I’m all good.

“But it’s been a little bit of a trip and [I’ll] probably be moving slow for a few weeks but then I’ll be back at it.”

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Micucci, who played Lucy the love interest of Raj Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar) on The Big Bang Theory, also revealed how she was first diagnosed.

She said: “I had one thing in my bloodwork that came back really high.

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“So I went to a preventative doc who did a few scans. He scanned my heart and that’s where the spot in my lung was noticed.”

Micucci has also appeared in the sitcoms Scrubs and Will & Grace.

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