Sonali gets candid about fight with cancer

Sonali Bendre said she spent a night crying when she learned of her cancer diagnosis and her husband and director Goldie Behl helped her deal with the news.

Last July, Bendre shared that she was diagnosed with a “high-grade cancer”. She underwent treatment in New York. The actress looked back at that time during an appearance on a chat show, where she came along with her friend, entrepreneur Sussanne Khan.

“After I spent the entire night coming to terms with it, I got up and decided no more crying and weeping. From now on, there will be happiness. I saw the sun coming up, clicked a picture and shared it with my family and my girls, and said, ‘Girls, Switch on the Sunshine’,” Bendra said. “Goldie and I are married for 16 years. And when I came to know about cancer, I realised Goldie is the most important person I care about.”

Bendre also shared an anecdote about her time in New York City with her friends as she was going through treatment. “We spent some time in New York. We were there with kids. The girls (Khan and Gayatri Oberoi) dropped the kids to school. Then it was just us and we really enjoyed the city. There was a little bit of chemo, surgery thrown in between,” Bendre revealed.