Twenty years ago, senior corporate vice president of Estee Lauder, Evelyn Lauder, approached Elizabeth Hurley to be a spokeswoman for a new organization called the Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign.
"She said, ‘Women all over the world are dying of breast cancer and people aren't talking about it, and I want to change that,'" Hurley told to a packed theater at the Tribeca Grand Hotel on Wednesday night. "I lost my grandmother to breast cancer just before I spoke to Evelyn, and I felt so awful because at that time, she was exactly the sort of person that Evelyn was talking about when she said, ‘We don't talk about breast cancer.'"
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