Ashley Park thanks her lover Paul Forman for saving her life.
Ashley Park, the actress of Emily in Paris, recently disclosed that she appeared on the famous program despite suffering leukemia and sepsis.
Ashley, who portrayed Mindy Chen in the Netflix drama, revealed on the My First Time podcast that she was afflicted with blood cancer as a teenager.
“It’s so crazy to be the woman I am now, it’s very full circle. It was right before Christmas that I was diagnosed,” the 33-year-old recounted.
Ashley stated, “I danced and I did a lot of extra-curriculars and was late to all my classes because I couldn’t climb the stairs in time. I had bruises everywhere and I had lost so much weight.
“But everyone changes when you’re 15.” “I was like, ‘Great, my growth spurt, I’m losing all my baby fat,'” the actress revealed.
Ashley went to the school pediatrician for a blood test, and they advised her to go to the ER immediately.
She subsequently spent eight months in the hospital as she sought therapy, eventually losing her hair in the process.
Ashley revealed that she had the option to pursue a career in musical theatre in New York while undergoing cancer treatment.
Her memory was this: “Once I left hospital I decided, ‘I don’t want this to define me, and one day I will have long hair again and people will have no idea’.”
Regardless of my wishes, it has defined me. “I had the adult form of leukemia, which is more intense and spreads faster,” she explained.
Ashley said that she “sees it as a blessing because, instead of a three-year treatment protocol, it was really vigorous” .
Meanwhile, the actress credited her boyfriend Paul Forman for saving her life.
“I feel lucky, actually. It’s been kind of a miracle how I have recovered. I don’t think I would have made it without him. Everybody else was on the other side of the world, she explained.