now.
>> I didn't know this side of
you.
Tell me about your mother.
What was she like?
>> She was strong.
She was -- I mean, I got my
fight from her fight.
I mean, look.
She went through cancer.
She unfortunately didn't survive
it.
Because she already had stage 4.
She didn't really want to tell
her family that she had cancer.
>> Right.
>> So we wouldn't worry, as
kids, you know.
>> Oh yeah.
>> How selfish is that?
But that's who my mom was.
She was strong, she was
determined.
And it's amazing because her
fight, I get it from her.
You know.
When I step inside the ring I
think about her.
I used to look up at the ceiling
and think about my mother and
get that strength from her.
So she was everything to me.
She is everything to me.
>> Oscar, even though she was
diagnosed and had treatment for
breast cancer when you were
still fighting, she encouraged
you to continue and follow
through with the olympics.
>> This is how strong she was.
She would have chemotherapy and
literally escape the hospital to
go and see me fight.
You know?
Like if I was fighting on a
Saturday afternoon, she would
literally show up to the fight,
you know, with no hair.
She would put on a cap and cheer
me on.
She was my biggest fan.
>> How old were you when she was
diagnosed?
>> I was 17.
Yeah.
We found out four months prior
to her passing away.
>> What?
That's it?
>> She kept it from us.
So that was like the most
difficult part about it.
>> Right.
>> Keeping it from us.
But again, she wanted to be
strong for her family and not
let her family suffer and go
through it.
>> You've done such an awesome
job just keeping her name alive
and honoring her legacy.
>> Thank you.
>> The Cecilia Gonzales de la
hoya cancer center, white
memorial center where I was just
at, talk about that.
>> You know what, we don't turn
nobody down.
Whether you have money or don't
have money.
We give so many free mammograms
to women who can't afford it.
I've had stories, you know.
I mean, the other day I had a
little kid at 10:00 P.M.,
getting milk for one of my kids,
the lady sent me to the market.
This little kid was following
me.
So we finally bump into each
other in the milk aisle.
And he's crying.
He tells me, thank you for
saving my mother's life.
And I'm like, oh my gosh.
What do you say to that?
Obviously the doctors and the
hospitals do an amazing job.
The white memorial hospital.
>> That's where your mom was
treated?
>> That's where my mother was
they treated her like a queen,
like a princess.
And I'll never forget it.
That's the reason why we do what
we do at the white memorial
>> Helping so many women.
What's your hope to raise the
awareness, to spread the word to
other women out there?
>> I'm honored to be called for
the first time the ambassador
for acs, American cancer
society.
So it's this campaign called
real men wear pink.
So we're spreading awareness.
We're spreading the message
that, look, women are huge, huge
advocates, and they have such a
strong voice, let's get the men
involved just as much.
>> Absolutely.
>> You know what I'm saying?
>> Listen, wait a minute, I want
to bring this up and hold this
right here.
This is the actual gold medal
that you won in 1992 in
Barcelona.
That's when we met, by the way,
'92.
Look at that.
>> That's what started
everything.
I mean, I won that gold medal
for my mother.
When she was in the bed, in the
hospital, in her bed, her last
words to me were, "Go and win
the gold medal."
I'm getting all teary-eyed now.
That's why it's so special to
me, it started everything.
>> What do you miss the most?
>> I miss -- I just missed her
hugs.
I miss her hugs.
I miss her looking at me and
telling me she loves me.
And her cooking.
>> I want to say, because he's a
humble guy and won't talk about
it, aside from the hospital, the
reason we're so close, he never
forgets where he came from.
He's got a high school, his own
high school out there, the de la
hoya high school.
He has a statue in front of
staples center.
Dude's got a statue.
>> By the way, I know that like
every week, make sure that
nobody does anything to it,
Polish it, you know.
>> At midnight, polishing.
>> I guarantee she's proud.
Thanks for coming in and all
that you do.
>>> Tomorrow on "Access daily,"
the world-renowned surgeon that
performed Angelina Jolie's
surgery Dr. Christie funk is