“I am the best version of myself”… Rafael Araneda assures us in an exclusive interview, that after having experienced a great scare when he underwent emergency surgery for polyps on his vocal cords, and a relapse that led him to face the word “biopsy”, he assures that he is not willing to keep quiet about anything and face everything, even the rumor that casts doubt on whether or not he is a good co-worker.
A few days after Having come back fully recovered for a new season of ‘Enamoranos USA’, he received us in the studio to confess like never before, including acknowledging the fear he felt, when and why and by whom.
¿ Why? because the Chilean presenter says that, with his wife Marcela, they came to the conclusion that his physical illness had an emotional root, that’s why in this interview nothing is really saved.
-You left in an accident, and you came back with everything.
Rafael Araneda: Everything happens for a reason in life, when you get a little scared obviously, the family, I saw my daughters worried, I didn’t like that, the youngest didn’t realize it, the one with 08 I told him: “Look skinny, everything will be fine”… One smokes it, but when you see the concern, the pain of those you love, it’s not so rich. Today I think I’m fine, I had a very good vacation, I rested a lot, I slept a lot, I ate well, I drank all the wine on the planet, we’re fine, I feel super good, and that’s good, it’s good to feel good, with energy , eagerly.
-What was it like to live in silence for someone whose most important instrument is their voice?
Rafael Araneda: It’s distressing It’s strange, it’s a new world, because it’s not that I couldn’t speak, it’s that I shouldn’t speak, so I also had to be judicious, responsible and that’s where the duty comes in, because I knew I could speak. I could speak and you can hear me perfectly, but I had the obligation not to speak, so that it rests, so that it heals… It is a new world, it is a super new world, it is arriving at the hospital and leaving with a little badge that says: “No I can talk, don’t ask me”, it means going to the supermarket with that so they don’t talk to you.
-What did you discover in the world of silence?
Rafael Araneda : That I don’t like it, that it causes me anguish and that I knew that silence was a must, it wasn’t an impossibility, I didn’t have a disability or a situation of disability, it was vocal rest, so everyone feels incapacitated, and it wasn’t something real deep down, it was a clinical option, I could have spoken but my recovery wasn’t going to be the most optimal… You realize there that people who live with real disabilities are of whatever type, visual, auditory, vocal, physical, whatever, psychological, spiritual, we all have some, it hurts, and we have to be empathic, one needs greater empathy in that situation.
-When you were able to speak again and they were discharged, were you scared?