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On April 19, 2012, ABC’s “Good Morning America” achieved the No.

1 spot in morning news.

Robin Roberts smiles for cameras

“Later that day, on April 19, the same day that we’re No.

1, I was told I had one to two years to live,” Roberts revealed.

She later added, “you’ve got the option to focus on the fight or the fright.

Robin Roberts smiles

I chose to focus on the fight and not the fright.”

Doctors believed Roberts developed the life-threatening disease as a result of her treatments for breast cancer five years earlier.

“I don’t want to be a survivor,” she added.

“I don’t want to survive going through something like this, I want to thrive.”

Why do we shy away from that?

Why do we do that?"

she asked Dr. Oz.