While celebrities like Alan Rickman , Ben Stiller, and Anjelica Huston live their lives in the spotlight, they chose to keep their cancer battles private.

RadarOnline.com can reveal the celebrities who quietly battled their diagnosis in private and their reasons for doing so. Article continues below advertisement

Alan Rickman

On January 14, 2016, the Harry Potter star following his private battle with prostate cancer. He was 69.

Rickman, who portrayed Snape in the hit movie franchise, was diagnosed with the illness shortly after he experienced a minor stroke in August 2015. He underwent surgery in 2006 before filming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and only told his family and close friends about his condition.

A few years after his death, an excerpt fr

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