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Valerie Harper hospitalized in Maine

Brown/Getty Images Valerie Harper attends Hallmark Channel & Hallmark Movie Channel’s Winter TCA Party on January 11, 2014 in San Marino, Calif. The actress, who is battling brain cancer, was hospitalized Wednesday. night and discharged Thursday morning, according to the hospital. Harper was transported by ambulance to York Hospital.

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The artistic director informed patrons about Valerie Harper’s sudden illness.

Valerie Harper’s TV family is pulling for her recovery.

“It doesn’t look good”, the insider told ET Online.

There are conflicting reports about Harper’s condition. Some of her acting credits include Freebie and the Bean, Chapter Two, Valerie and her most famous role as Rhoda Morgenstern on the The Mary Tyler Moore Show. But since then, she has beat the odds and continued to work as an actress. “I was told I’d be dead in three months”, Harper recalled. Hopefully we will see you back on stage soon! I have been extremely lucky. Harper said, “It’s incurable, but that’s okay…” In 2013, she said that her brain cancer, which had been described as terminal, was almost in remission. “I’m ready to go”.

“She’s a very, very special person”, the actor said of Harper at the premiere of his new film, “The Gift“, in Hollywood.

“But I am not banking on anything, really, because we shouldn’t”. Every moment you spend in fear of cancer is a moment you’ve wasted enjoying life.

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Valerie Harper is reportedly doing well after being released from the hospital.

Valerie Harper speaks at an event in New York City