Actor Juan Pablo Medina talks about the amputation of his leg: “I decided to live”

Mexico City, 24 Mar “I decided to live, I was more afraid of not waking up than waking up without a leg,” Mexican-born American actor Juan Pablo Medina told a national media outlet after several months of speculation about his health and few appearances on social media. “I'm going to have a normal life and that's all,” he said. “My first reaction was like anger,” the 44-year-old actor confessed in an interview with GQ magazine, who on July 15, 2021 had to be admitted to a hospital for having suffered a silent heart attack that later forced the amputation of his right leg. “I want to enjoy what I did win, which was to live, which matters more than what I lost,” explained Medina, who appears very smiling modeling her prosthesis on the cover of the April edition in different scenarios and who also presumed that it is “the best prosthesis there is, it is mechatronics”. Throughout the interview, the actor tells what he lived through from the moment he felt bad, that July 15, what it was like to struggle with the diagnosis, what his life is like today and even what his aspirations and plans for the future. He highlighted the support of his family, starting with his father, who is a doctor, who did “everything possible” to save his limb, but above all his life; his girlfriend, actress Paulina Davila, who was responsible for tempering him and making him understand that his health came first, as well as outsiders who had gone through the same experience and with which he had had opportunity to live together. “Something that has helped me a lot is how I want to look, what I want to do, I am very excited to work, but I want to be at the moment when my body and my head tell me I am ready for this. I want to master the prosthesis and it takes time and a lot of effort and work for after being able to interpret, I am very grateful”, he concluded. CHIEF mrl/esc/lll (photo)