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Actor Manisha Koirala said that her cancer diagnosis led to several realisations. In an interview, the veteran actor said that those whom she considered to be her close friends turned their back on her when she fell sick. Only her immediate family stood by her during those difficult times. She said that even her extended family, all of whom could afford to visit her when she was fighting cancer, didn’t do so. Manisha said that she sought therapy after her diagnosis, and that it helped her immensely.
Asked how the experience altered her relationship with her family and friends, Manisha told NDTV in an interview, “It’s been a journey. It has also been a learning experience. I really believed that I had multiple friends. I thought partying together, travelling together, having fun together, people will sit with me in my pain. That was not so. People are not capable of sitting with anybody’s pain, let alone their own pain. We always try to find excuses to not feel pain. We want to escape pain. That’s human nature. I found myself very lonely, and I realised that only my immediate family was around me.”
Manisha said that only her immediate family stood by her, and added, “I also have a huge Koirala khandaan. Nobody was there. I have a big family, and everybody is affluent, they can all afford it. But it was my parents, it was my brother, it was my brother’s wife. And that is it. And I realised that when everybody leaves me, these are the people who will be with me. My priority is my immediate family, no matter what. They come first in my life, everybody else later.”
Manisha was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2012. She sought treatment in New York. In the NDTV interview, she said that she still finds it difficult to work at the pace that she used to. “Impacted by cancer, I know how body and mind are intertwined. Even now sometimes I work in depression. Honestly speaking, when I was doing Heeramandi, it consumed me so much, my mood swings… And I was just like ‘Sail through this phase. Once this is out, focus on your health,” she said. The actor can currently be seen in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Netflix series Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar.
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