'Baywatch' actress Nicole Eggert discloses 'rough' cancer diagnosis: 'Who's going to cover the bills'

Actress Nicole Eggert is revealing her heartbreaking cancer diagnosis, admitting that things are hard financially as a single mom.

"My fear is that my everyday hustle, everything that I do to keep everything going is going to come to a screeching halt when I'm not feeling well or I'm sick or I'm in the hospital or whatever is going on," she said, noting that as a single mother, finances have been a concern. "It's just so overwhelming, and I'm just doing everything I can not to spiral. At night when I lay down, I panic because I'm like, well, who's going to cover all the bills? Who's going to do all of this?" Caroline Thayer is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Follow Caroline Thayer on Twitter at @carolinejthayer. Story tips can be sent to caroline.thayer@fox.com.

Eggert, 51, initially felt pain in her breast and gained 25 pounds within three months. Believing them to be symptoms of menopause, she was surprised to locate a lump during a self-exam in October. "It really was throbbing and hurting," she explained. "I immediately went to my general practitioner and she told me I had to immediately go get it looked at. But the problem was I just couldn't get an appointment. Everything was booked. So I had to wait until the end of November to get it done." A post shared by Nicole Eggert (@_nicole_eggert)

Results later showed that she had stage 2 cribriform carcinoma breast cancer. Both of Eggert's parents had cancer.