Julia Louis-Dreyfus felt forced to reveal her breast cancer diagnosis because she knew she would need to explain the pause of her hit show, “Veep.”

During her Tuesday appearance on the “Good Hang” podcast , host Amy Poehler commended her for going public with her diagnosis, saying it was “very helpful for a lot of people” and wasn’t something she was obligated to share.

“Well, I was kind of backed into a corner on that one, because we had to shut our show down,” Louis-Dreyfus, 64, admitted. “It’s funny how that worked out, because normally I would not have done that. I’m very private.”

Once the actress realized that shooting would need to be put on pause so she could focus on her health, it also hit her that “250 people weren’t going to be working.”

“So I had to make a public thing a

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