Published 12:07 IST, November 5th 2019

Lisa Ray opens up about her cancer diagnosis at an event

The Indian-Canadian actor Lisa Ray was recently seen in Delhi attending an event. Read more to know about how she opened up about her cancer diagnosis.

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Lisa Ray is an Indian-Canian actor and author. She is also a philanthropist and social activist. She me her acting debut in Indian Film Industry with her role in Tamil langu movie Nethaji in year 1994. In year 2005, she appeared in Canian film Water. movie was premiered at Toronto International Film Festival.  She is also author of book Close To Bone which talks about struggles of her life as she fights against cancer. Re more to kw about what she h to say about her cancer and how she reacted she found out news. 

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Lisa Ray opens up about her cancer diagsis at an event 

Indian-Canian actor Lisa Ray was seen sporting an anti-pollution mask in midst of all pollution in city of Delhi. Ray was re to attend an event on Sunday. While speaking at event she opened about her cancer diagsis saying that her doctor was scared, because after he anunced new of her multiple myeloma she did t react. Her doctor said that it was incurable and fatal yet she did t react to it. She said that while doctor was breaking news to her, she was thinking about how her body h been trying to give her signals for months but she h been avoiding signs. She stated how she intuitively knew that re was something wrong but she did t have cour to do anything about this because she h trained herself to igre what her body told her.

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She went on to d that in her profession, you cant go home if you are sick, you have to take medicines and get back to work. She ded that she h t dealt with trauma of accident. “What do we do when we don’t want to face something? We keep busy. I did that.” n one day she finally decided to give in and listen to her body. Lisa Ray said that it was n she realised that it was a time of reckoning. She stated that she knew it wasn’t end of her, and she is t going to die, but she also knew that it wasn’t going to be easy.

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