Last year Sonali Bendre announced the news of her cancer diagnosis, leaving the film fraternity and her fans in shock. She had taken off to New York for medical treatment with her husband Goldie Behl, and made sure to “switch on her sunshine” and was constantly updating her social media family about her battle against cancer.
Currently, Sonali has taken a small break from her cancer treatment. In a recent interview, she revealed that she did not want to go to New York and there was a stage where the actress merely 30% chances of survival.
Hesitating to go to the US, Sonali argued with her husband Goldie Behl and stayed adamant to proceed with the treatment in Mumbai. However, Goldie managed to take her to the States for better treatment. "I didn’t want to go to New York. It was my husband who wanted to go. And I fought with him all through the flight. ‘Why are you doing this? We have good doctors here. Why are you taking me away?’ My home, my life... in three days, we literally just packed and left and, I don’t know, what was happening. I was like let’s, at least, speak to the doctors here and he was just quiet through the whole thing and focussed," the actress revealed.
“But he was just quiet through the whole thing and just focussed. In the day, he was organizing and in the night, because New York was awake, he was again organizing. So, I got him to actually crib about the whole thing on the flight. Through the flight, I cribbed. I was venting,” she added.
However, the gravity of the situation hit her when she read the reports. "I land in New York and next day, we go to the doctor. He looks at everything and we had sent all our tests and he says, you know, it is fourth stage and you have 30% chance of survival. That really hit me; I just turned to Goldie and I remember saying: Thank God, you got me here’. Goldie always says that tomorrow I’d rather feel I over-reacted, over-spent than under-reacted and have that regret that I should have done that’. There was no time for it and we were not told that it was fourth stage but Goldie had started reading about it and he was suspecting it."
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Sonali, in July 2018, shared about her diagnosis on her Instagram handle. Since then, Sonali has been the face of bravery and courage. Be it coming out in the open about her scars or motivating women across the globe to fight the odds with a smile, she has upped the true significance of International Women's Day.
