Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Penelope Cruz has insisted she is “fine” after being told she had suffered a brain aneurysm.
The Hollywood actress recently revealed she was given shocking news from her doctors while she was filming her recent movie The Black Ball explaining they told her she had suffered a major health scare and she was convinced she was going to die.
However, Penelope has revealed it was actually a “false alarm” and she’s actually in good health. She told Porter magazine: “I have had many scares like that. Fortunately, I’m fine, it was a false alarm.
“But I worry about staying healthy, taking care of myself. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I really don’t party. Without health, we have nothing. You talk about real equality? Why don’t we start with health?”
The 52-year-old actress previously revealed her doctor told she had suffered a brain aneurysm the evening before her night-shoot sequences on The Black Ball were due to begin.
Speaking at a press conference for The Black Ball at the Cannes Film Festival in France Penelope said: “When we were about to go out, I was putting on my wig, and they said, ‘Oh, apparently you have some brain aneurysm.’
“I thought I was about to die. This is something that was totally surreal in my life.”
The Oscar-winning actress explained she thought it was a “joke” at first but doctors later gave her the all-clear to begin shooting the next day.
Thanking her colleagues on the movie for their support, Penelope said: “The shooting was not going to stop. And for me, talking about these things is very important.
“It’s important to share information about where such characters take you – you experience these things together, yet despite all this, despite the hardship, you can move forward in life, and I think they’re the only people who knew all these details and they provided such incredible support.”
In her interview with Porter, Penelope spoke about the importance of proper diagnosis and investigations in the health care system – and called for better funding for conditions that affect women.
She said: “It’s shocking that over decades, we’ve stuck to the same information about how women’s bodies work,” she says, switching from vim to vigor.
“Look at funding for investigation into any illness that affects only women – we don’t get even half the investment. It is a level of control or suppression.”
