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Charo recently opened up about her perspective on aging and the value she places on the wisdom she’s gained over the years.
The 75-year-old star of “The Love Boat” expressed her decision to embrace aging, attributing it to a conscious, positive choice.
“You have two options. It’s really that simple,” she shared in an interview with Fox News Digital, published on Sunday.
She elaborated, “One option is to fall into despair, cry, succumb to depression, and feel awful. The other? Well, I’m opting for the latter because it leads to gaining wisdom. No one’s going to take advantage of me like before. I’ve learned from my past mistakes.”
Charo also mentioned her eagerness to pursue “new adventures” as she continues to age.
“I’m going to be taking care of myself,” she added, though noted that she has no issues in indulging in a glass of champagne or a piece of chocolate.
Charo shared that there were still things for her to look forward to.
“Every year you learn something,” she said. “Every year is something new. Every year you have new friends.”
“So it’s better to be alive and clever than to be feeling stupid, crying in a corner,” she added. “I take the second choice.”
The Spanish singer and actress also reflected on continuing on after her husband, Kjell Rasten, died by suicide in 2019.
Charo acknowledged she was “lost” after the incident but learned to accept it as time passed.
“Time made me grow up and understand that he died, and I cannot do anything but see his picture and pray for him, ” she said. “But you grow, and you go, ‘OK, God, let me live. What good can I do? Can I enjoy life?’”
Charo spoke about her late husband back in July 2019, sharing that she “had no clues at all” that he was going to take his own life.
The two had been married for over 40 years and shared a son together, Shel, now 44.
“He was the best husband, the best father, the best companion … [on] February 18, at 9 o’clock he shot himself but he didn’t want me to find him,” she recalled during an appearance on “The Talk.”
But she did end up finding him in an alley.
“‘He did not fall down, he put a bullet in his head,’” she said the police told her. “In that moment I had a bullet in my heart.”
Rasten was 79 years old.