Lorena Rojas admits: “Telemundo offered me half the salary as if the cancer made me worth less”
Two years ago, Lorena Rojas had never dreamed of or in their worst nightmares what he would play live. In the very success of his career starring in novels that were turning the world the actress was diagnosed with cancer in her breast.
The world seemed to fall out on top: no health insurance, with an exclusivity contract with Telemundo to a close and living in Miami far from his family Lorena thought there was going to be free and that the worst was yet to come because the first surgery to remove the malignant tumor we found a larger which makes their advanced cancer is diagnosed. Send him a message Lorena Rojas
However, Lorena as the title of the song that became his anthem ‘Do not give up and fought, and although many have turned their backs as the case of Telemundo that left her without a contract and not even gave him the money raised from the sponsors of an event that did in their name others surprised by his help even now she says she does not change anything where lived until she became the spokeswoman for the prestigious Hispanic Foundation ‘Livestrong’. This is your history.
Lorena, and the cancer is out of your body, what you feel when looking back?
“I feel that it went so fast, it was an experience that makes me the woman I am. Do not lived in a manner so difficult because, fortunately I found out today we are 28 million people suffering from cancer and we know. The journey was difficult alarming . I was scared and took a hand in the matter but it was a wonderful education no change at all the days I lived what made me the person I am now. After nearly two years since I was diagnosed and I’m out. ”
Why do not you change anything that you lived?
“I have a very different view of things, I feel I have grown not only physically but emotionally, we grow the heart, dreams, hope, faith. Growing up hurts, but I feel much more grounded, no more evolved because having been sick person does not make me a more valuable or intelligent than others, at all. I have reorganized my priorities and my vision is clearer in my way: I’ve done, what lies behind and what’s coming. No I move or change each one of the days I lived nor joy nor sorrow nor pain. Cancer is not the best thing that happened, I’m not the woman I dreamed that one day but I am the woman who I want I can and I decided to be. ”
There were key people who kept you positive, who are they and how they do it?
“My family has been the hallmark and pillar of my life not just at the moment, but always. My mother, above all, my brothers, my dad played a big role in my approach for ‘Livestrong . He’s actually my stepfather, but I hate to say this because we handled from a young age and for me is my dad. And people who were instrumental, Mari Urdaneta who is my manager as well as my good friend, Sol Mari that is my ‘style’, people who were actually living day to day my illness. There is a very important woman who is Mayte Prida was an angel that crossed my path I had no health insurance, all announced in a Miami radio show with Javier Ceriani, he was a trampoline and a strong voice that helped me in my early days of diagnosis, because two of them could do my treatment and that things were not so expensive. ”
You say your father was a key person?
“He likes to give people their space, when I received this diagnosis he stayed away but leaning in a very helpful, every time I spoke with him was giving me a great energy positivism. He had just received the second diagnosis, called me and said, ‘I’ve never asked for anything, but today I would like to read the biography of the cyclist Lance Armstrong. “knew who he was and what he did as four years that had been fashionable since its founding yellow bandages. I bought the book and read it in two days. I clung to him as my Bible, to their strength, their sufferings, identified myself with all that this man lived. I realized that was not the only one who had all these low and high, he felt the same way, as happened to Mayte Prida, Soraya rest in peace. It was not just me who was so angry with life. Lance then lost the support of major sponsors at the time said she had cancer. I lost my contract with Telemundo, I renovated it and I felt everything was against me, but I realized that it is a social stigma. The disease of cancer is a problem that should be a priority world because it is very difficult right now to make society understand that this disease is curable and that one can return to their physical and mental activities as before. ”
Will you write your own book to help other people?
“I have raised, I have been thinking a bit more in the idea of writing, but I have not yet very clear. I do not want to appear as an opportunist. There are still many questions left to me along this path yet I have a couple of surgeries, I am recovering from chemotherapy such as and I know the food, do not smell things, my mood swings are very drastic, I’m still suffering the ravages of medicine is very strong, I feel that I’m a little closer to the end of this cycle, I want a little more knowledge about what I have lived in much more solid bases that have a purpose direction and not just a novelilla that I can sell. “
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