Teaching life lesson, the actress speaks with emotion about her battle with cancer from which she emerged victorious, about what has changed in her life, for her husband Spyros Papadopoulos and their son, which had a catalytic effect so that he could fight the disease, but also for her return to the theater with the performance "My mom never dies".

The title of the show you are starring in at the Vault Theater is My Mom Never Dies…
It's a book by Claire Castillon, which has already become a best seller in several countries. Contains monologues, which are like one-act plays and have to do with the mother-daughter relationship, where sometimes the abuser is the daughter and the victim is the mother and sometimes vice versa. Many times we hear stories that we say are extreme, but they may be happening next door. It's a tough show, but people love her very much. I have a feeling that they identify with their personal lives. I present two monologues. The first concerns a woman who has manic depression and the second a mother who receives violence from her daughter.

Mention that one monologue relates to a woman who has manic depression. Speaking about cancer, you mentioned that you went through depression.
Yes, I was depressed before cancer. In retrospect I realized that the body gives you some signals.

They say that the bad psychology we have at certain moments in life affects our organism.
Agree. Many times the mental state, being pressured by things also brings physical illness. I think there was cancer. In retrospect, when I started reading, I found it changes your temperament. Believe, Well, that I hadn't noticed him. This brought me a form of depression and, because I don't like taking pills, I was fighting it on my own. That threw me, drowned me. I was struggling to get over it.

How did you perceive cancer?;
With a standard mammogram.

How did you feel?;
When I found out I have cancer, I got the mammograms in my hands, I went to a corner of the hospital and started to cry. I got lost. I didn't know where I was, what will i do, what was waiting for me. It was very heavy on my mind to be told: “You have cancer. Tomorrow you have to do a surgical biopsy to see if it has spread". At that moment a woman came next to me. She was very beautiful. He told me: “Why are you crying;». I answered her: "Out of happiness!». “You mean it;», he asked me. "You're fine; I have cancer", I answered her. Then she showed me her breast and said: “Look! I've been through it. Don't care! If it is operable, it passes. remember that". This woman gave me so much courage and I said: "I'll fight it and deal with it". During the period of chemotherapy and radiation, I had a very good oncologist by my side. We were talking! Then I promised myself that I would speak openly about this matter, for even one woman to hear me and see that I am working, I continue my life as normal, I'm over it and I'm much better, maybe i can help her. Sometimes illness can be a blessing. It gives you such a slap in the face that makes you appreciate things differently. During the chemo treatments I was saying that when this story is over I just want to look at the sea. I'll be happy with that alone. I became a much stronger person.

How did Spyros Papadopoulos react when you told him?;
He was in a huge shock and was very supportive. He gave me a lot of courage in the way he dealt with it. He was telling me: “You are strong! I know you can get through it. You will go further". It helped me a lot, as is my son. We were joking. We were laughing a lot. I was wearing the wig, I used to pick him up from school in the car and he would pull her on me. This for
it was psychotherapeutic for me.

You basically treated it like it meant nothing.
That's exactly how I wanted to spend it.

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