Silvia Herreros 06/06/2024 4:41 p.m.
Isabel Ordaz, in an archive photoCord Press
Isabel Ordaz speaks for the first time about her fight against cancer
The actress from ‘La que se cerca’ has carried her illness in secret
Writing ‘Life Elsewhere: A Journey Around Cancer’ has been a true catharsis for her.
Isabel Ordaz, known among many other roles for having given life to Araceli Maradiaga in ‘The one that is coming’, speaks for the first time about his cancer. The interpreter has kept her illness a secret for years. A silence that she has been encouraged to break now after the publication of the book ‘Life Elsewhere’, in which the former wife of Enrique Pastor in the successful Telecinco series tells her experience through she is story that for her has been a kind of catharsis.
For the performer, who has written several collections of poems throughout her life, writing about the colon cancer that they detected him and that he has kept silent has been a way of freeing himself. “I saw myself kidnapped, stunned by this illness. In order not to be completely annulled, I needed my own story, to turn everything into a narrative,” she explains in an interview with Vanitatis while talking about the illness that she has fortunately overcome and for which She claims to be “miraculously alive.”
Isabel Ordaz gave life to Araceli Madariaga in ‘The one that is coming’Cord Press
Life Elsewhere’ is “a journey around cancer.” A story written in “free poetic prose” in which, through literature and multiple metaphors, Isabel Ordaz reflects on life, death and the stigma that exists with the disease.
“A diagnosis of these characteristics makes everything fall apart around you.“, tells the writer to the aforementioned media while reflecting on how much a person’s life changes when they are diagnosed with this disease of “six rogue letters and an accent.” “Your future begins to be unstable or uncertain. Everything is altered, everything takes on another dimension. You remain as if perplexed. She couldn’t even cry. Little by little, the diagnosis goes down to the heart, to the skin. You are entering into the protocol of healing or therapies,” she says while she remembers her hard and particular process.
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“When you are young, death does not exist (…) there is always a very aesthetic component in it. Now I was the one who was in that tunnel, with the real possibility of dying, with a disease that has some stigma, a lot of pain and a very painful therapy. And of course, the romantic or aesthetic perception of the disease, of any disease, changes,” he says after having to face death face to face.
“Thank God, I have been reborn. Thanks to the doctors, to everyone. To friendship too. And to myself, I suppose. I have already passed the cycle of check-ups. I have to continue checking myself, but with a longer period of time. For security and by protocol, in the oncology branch, you never receive a discharge as such but it can be said that The doctor told me that I am cured. Already I’ve been living a normal life for almost five years.. And furthermore, with that strength of having gone through that dark territory of the tunnel, of the spider web, of non-life, of the danger of losing it,” celebrates the actress who also gave life to ‘The Herbs’ in the brothers’ other series Gentleman.
For Isabel Ordaz, cancer has been quite a journey. An experience that she would like not to have experienced but that has finally ended up making her “more human” and helping her to savor aspects of existence that perhaps I had overlooked before.
