Valerie Harper Released After Being Rushed to Hospital in Maine (Updated)

The actress, diagnosed with brain cancer in 2013, had to cut short performance in stage musical

UPDATED: The hospital reported that Valerie Harper was released on Thursday morning, but did not provide further information about her condition.

Valerie Harper was hospitalized Wednesday night during a performance of her musical “Nice Work If You Can Get It” at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine.

The 75-year-old actress, a five-time Emmy winner for the ’70s sitcoms “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Rhoda,” was taken by ambulance to York Hospital after reporting that she was feeling unwell.

Harper is “resting comfortably and will remain in the hospital for observation for the time being,” according to a statement posted on the Playhouse’s website on Thursday.

“The audiences and all of us here at the Playhouse are greatly enjoying our time with Valerie here in Ogunquit, and we are encouraged that she is feeling better,” said Bradford T. Kenney, Executive Artistic Director.

Harper was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 2013, after previously beating lung cancer in 2009. She had been performing in the Ogunquit Playhouse production as Millicent Winter along with Sally Struthers as Duchess Estonia Dulworth.

The production is set to run through August 15.

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