Antonio Banderas on the heart attack he experienced and how it changed his life

“That was my last warning, it could have been very bad. When people ask me what a heart attack looks like, I say I don’t know. I can tell you what it looks like what I had,” said Antonio Banderas to Fox News, recalling the heart attack he had in 2017 and adding that the heart attack in his case did not cause “major damage”, but he points out that not everyone has such luck, that is, that they don’t get a second chance.

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“There are people who experience a heart attack without recognizing it. It happens to them, for example, in their sleep. And then the next day they feel strange, unaware of what happened to them. In my case, it was an unequivocal call to really look at life in a different way the way. I realized that I had gone down the wrong path“, he said.

Antonio Banderas suffered a heart attack two years after his divorce from actress Melanie Griffith, to whom he was married for 20 years, was finalized. In order to deal with it as easily as possible, he devoted himself to work.

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“After the divorce I was confused. I was doing many things at the same time, I was trying to protect myself and find refuge in work. I was making films one after the other. It was crazy. And so I stopped, that is, I got out of that adrenaline vortex when my heart said, “Slow down, stop,” he emphasized and revealed how the second chance affected him:

“At first it wasn’t a pleasant way to go back to the beginning. In the end I returned to my hometown. I bought a theater that I still have. Success is just doing what you want the way you want. That’s what I’m doing in life right now. And I feel very healthy.”