Sonali Bendre on sharing her cancer diagnosis on social media

Sonali Bendre was diagnosed with cancer last year, and travelled to New York for treatment. She continued to share her health news on social media, highlighting her struggles and giving support to others going through the same diagnosis, and says that she wanted to be in charge of sharing her story with everyone.

Bendre spoke at the India Today Conclave 2019, saying, “I wanted to be charge of my narrative from the start. When you are a public figure, there are so many narratives that it out there. And suddenly you lose hold of that narrative very quickly. It becomes a different thing all together. As I went through the process, I realised that there are so many others that would be going to through it. I wouldn’t be honest that if I said, ‘Everything was sunshine’. Every time I kept thinking ‘Why am I not being positive?’ and then you start feeling ‘Did I do something wrong?’. You have to go through that pain. And that’s why I wanted it to be out that there is pain and it is hard. The point is to reduce that time to as minimum and prolong the good time for as long as you can,” as according to PTI.

Bendre returned to India in December of last year.