'It's important to tell my kid full facts'-Sonali Bendre pens emotional letter amid battling cancer
- By Web Desk -
- Jul 19, 2018
MUMBAI: Indian actress Sonali Bendre shocked the world after she recently shared that she is battling metastatic cancer. Now, even as everyone is reeling from shock at the unfortunate news, she is showing incredible strength in face of such adversity.
Taking to Instagram, Sonali shared a picture with her son Ranveer and set a long caption beneath it telling the world how she broke the Heart wrenching story to her little 12-year-old.
Sonal wrote;
“From the moment he was born 12 years, 11 months and 8 days ago, my amazing @rockbehl took ownership of my heart. From then on, his happiness and well-being have been the center of anything @goldiebehl and I ever did. And so, when the Big C reared its ugly head, our biggest dilemma was what and how we were going to tell him.”
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Sonali says that instead of trying to protect Ranveer, she and husband Goldie Behl decided to be honest with him. “As much as we wanted to protect him, we knew it was important to tell him the full facts. We’ve always been open and honest with him and this time it wasn’t going to be different. He took the news so maturely… and instantly became a source of strength and positivity for me. In some situations now, he even reverses roles and takes on being the parent, reminding me of things I need to do!”
She adds in her post, “I believe that it’s imperative to keep kids involved in a situation like this. They are a lot more resilient than we give them credit for. It’s important to spend time with them and include them, rather than make them wait on the sidelines, not being told yet instinctively knowing everything. In our effort to protect them from the pain and realities of life, we might end up doing the opposite.”