Suzanne Somers went from actress to advocate this year after the cancer survivor was misdiagnosed with a second form of cancer in 2008. "The oncologist came in and he had no bedside manner, he said 'Well, you've got cancer. It's everywhere; I've never seen so much cancer,'" Suzanne recalls. Doctors soon found she was suffering from a dormant fungus that looked like cancer on her CAT scan. "Had I been another kind of patient I would have been on that chemotherapy for a cancer I didn't have."

This experience inspired her to write the book Knockout to inform other patients about alternative treatments to chemotherapy. "I started earlier this year calling these doctors, interviewing their patients, finding all the different ways including conventional if you have chemotherapy .... what can you take so that it's not so harsh," she says. Her book set off a huge controversy in the medical community and in the media, especially after she questioned the chemotherapy treatments given to Patrick Swayze, who died of pancreatic cancer in September.

"I shouldn't have said it," she now admits. "As a public person, even at 2 o'clock in the morning at a private party, what I say can leak out ... I had been through this cancer thing this year myself, I watched Farah Fawcett die, she was a friend of mine, so it was my frustration that day ... He was strong. Maybe if someone had gotten to him with another way? All I'm saying in this book, no advice, not telling anyone what to do ... Don't you want to know that there are other ways?"

Rachael thanks the sitcom star for speaking so openly on the topic, and Suzanne says she would love one favor in return: "Can I come back some time and cook with you?" Rachael agrees and says she's got a deal!