Shari Redstone , who for months has been leading the charge to merge Paramount Global with David Ellison’s Skydance Media has, at the same time, been fighting a more personal battle with thyroid cancer.

Her spokesperson told Deadline in a statement, “Shari Redstone was diagnosed with thyroid cancer earlier this spring. While it has been a challenging period, she is maintaining all professional and philanthropic activities throughout her treatment, which is ongoing. She and her family are grateful that her prognosis is excellent.”

The diagnosis throws yet another wrench into the process of selling Paramount — the company built into a media empire by her late father, Sumner Redstone — after an already Baroque saga. The pending $8 billion merge with Skydance Media, proposed last summer,

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