Lisa Ray narrates terrifying experience of being a cancer survivor; Says I didn’t have the courage to do anything!

Lisa Ray spoke in great lengths about her fight with cancer, and she also mentioned the challenges she faced in her career after the treatment...

Lisa Ray

Recently, Bollywood actress Lisa Ray made an appearance at Delhi for an event. Considering, Delhi’s poor state of air quality the city has been suffering from air pollution, which made the actress don a mask to avoid getting exposed to toxic air. During the event, she spoke about her battle with cancer and how she reacted when she was told it could be fatal.

The actress is one of the brave cancer-survivors of B-Town and constantly motivates fans by sharing her story. 

Narrating her story while speaking at the Sahitya AajTak 2019 event on Sunday, she said, “My doctor was scared because after he announced to me that I had multiple myeloma, I didn’t react. Even though he said it was incurable and fatal. In my mind, I was thinking that my body has been trying to give me signals for months, and I was ignoring them. Then I got this strongest possible message. Intuitively, I knew something was wrong. But I didn’t have the courage to do anything, because I was trained to ignore what my body was telling me.”

She went on to add, “In our profession, you can’t go home when you’re sick. You pop medicines and get on with work. In addition, I hadn’t really dealt with the trauma of the accident I was in. What do we do when we don’t want to face something? We keep busy. I did that. Until finally I had to stop, listen to my body, heal and make changes. In a strange way, I realized it was a time of reckoning. I knew it wasn’t the end of me, I knew I wasn’t going to die, but I also knew it wasn’t going to be easy.”

The actor-turned-author conceived an autobiography - Close To The Bone this year which speaks about her difficulty yet a strong story of being a cancer survivor and her battle against the dreadful disease.

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