Taylor Lautner’s wife Tay describes her fear of breast cancer

Taylor Lautner’s wife, Tay Lautner, had a breast cancer scare “a few months ago.”

Although Tay is now doing “fine,” she described the “horrific” ordeal in detail in the latest episode of her and Taylor’s podcast, “The Squeeze.”

Tay, 27, said she was “home alone with the dogs” when she decided to take a shower.

“I was taking a shower, washing my body, soaping myself up, and I felt this lump on my breast,” she recalled. “I paused for a moment and thought, ‘Wait, what?'”

Tay said she “pressed on it again” to get a better “feel” and quickly realized that “there was this hard lump.”

“I was literally just standing in the shower and I was completely frozen,” she continued, adding that she was “thinking all sorts of things” at that moment.

Since Tay has “several friends” who are directly or indirectly affected by the disease, she was on high alert.

“Feeling something foreign in her body, especially there, was horrible,” she lamented, admitting that she “immediately started crying.” She said “both dogs heard her crying and ran into the bathroom” to comfort her.

Tay finished her shower as quickly as possible and went out. She felt like she “couldn’t call” her husband because he was “in a meeting” and she didn’t want to “bother” him.

Tay revealed to Taylor that she then “set up her phone and started recording herself,” explaining that she viewed the video as a sort of “diary entry.”

When the “Twilight” star came home, Tay – who was “sobbing” – let him in on the secret.

“I was terrified,” the 32-year-old actor admitted, “because it’s just hard not to get into the worst thoughts.”

Although he was “freaking out,” Taylor tried to hide his fear so as not to make Tay “even more worried.”

Tay immediately made an appointment with her gynecologist, who referred her to a breast center. There, one of the specialists did “a little ultrasound” of her breast and “basically said everything was fine.”

The specialist explained that “sometimes this just happens” as breast tissue can “shift” due to hormonal changes.

“It’s still there today,” Tay said of the lump. “It hasn’t gone away.”

Taylor pointed out that the “strange and frightening” thing about the lump is that “you can only feel it from one direction,” which means “it could have been there for who knows how long.”

“Ladies,” Tay noted, “this is your reminder to do your shower self-exam. If (breast cancer) runs in your family, there are many screening tests that can be done.”