James Olmos reveals that he has overcome throat cancer

Actor Edward James Olmos (76) revealed that he overcame throat cancer and that the experience helped him realize “how wonderful life is,” according to the media, which reported what he recently said in a podcast this Sunday.

“This is the first time I’m out there public and I say it: I had throat cancer,” said the actor, who was born in California to a family of Mexican descent.

In his talk on the podcast “Command and Friends”Olmos, who played the popular “Lieutenant Castillo” on the 1980s series “Miami Vice” and was nominated for an Oscar in 1988 for “Stand and Deliver,” said that until last December he was treated with radiation and chemotherapy and that he sometimes felt the body was “for sale”.

I was close to death, he said.

One of the things that most freaked out by the whole experience It was when the five doctors who advised him before the treatment told him that they did not know how his voice would sound afterwards.

“I exclaimed: ‘What?!'” recalled Olmos, who pointed out that the cancer he was suffering from “very strong disease” and the doctors had to “shoot” her vocal cords with radiation.

“We shoot his vocal cords, we shoot his throatwhere you eat, where you swallow, where you talk, breathe, everything happens here,” he said.

Olmos confirmed that “many” of his friends died from the same illness and it cost him 55 pounds to lose (25 kilograms) in weight and all the muscle tone, because, as he could not swallow, he had to be fed through tubes.

He devoted the last four months to his recovery force and now she’s in good shape thanks to swimming, weight training and rowing.

“It was an experience that changed me, that made me understand wonderful what is life,” said Olmos, who still has a lump in her throat where the radiation burned her lymph nodes.

Olmos is one of the protagonists “Maje MC”, series that chronicles the conflicts between immigrants and Latino gangs like no other television fiction and has been running on FX for four seasons.

He was also part of the cast “Selena”the 1997 film that recreated the beginnings and brilliant musical rise of the queen of Tex-Mex, Selena Quintanilla, playing her father, Abel Quintanilla, 25 years ago.