New Delhi, September 09: Actress Lisa Ray, who played the beautiful but tragic widow Kalyani in Deepa Mehta’s Oscar nominated film ‘Water’, has revealed through her blog that she is suffering from a rare and incurable form of cancer.
The 37-year-old actress who started blogging to give people an insight into her struggle with the disease, first broke the news in a post on 7 September.
“I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma on June 23rd.
Started my first cycle of treatment July 2nd. Not long ago,” wrote the model-turned actress who first shot to fame in India with the racy Bombay Dyeing advertisement which saw her in a black swim suit.
Ray who was born to a Bengali father and a Polish mother in Canada has made clear her plans to continue working and fight back the disease.
“First the facts. Myeloma is incurable…I believe it can be cured.
–PTI