The silence of Ana Rosa Quintana

The silence of Ana Rosa Quintana is similar to that of Julia Otero when she was diagnosed with cancer. The second one withdrew from everything and almost everyone while undergoing treatment, and did not reappear until she had overcome the disease.

She did it with an expressive “I am alive and a warrior. There are no longer ‘selfish’ in the body, and now to wait five years to consider the matter settled”. In this sense, the popular presenter is just as optimistic and demonstrates her own strength.

In her program, her close friend and collaborator, Joaquín Prat, confesses that “Ana is the soul that unifies us all, and with her absence we feel orphans“.

Quintana hid her illness until the same day she revealed it publicly, on November 2, in her morning. Joaquín himself learned of the harsh circumstances that his boss was going through twenty-four hours earlier and was “in shock”.

Now, the journalist divides her time between radiation therapy sessions, some collaborations in her production company, always behind the cameras, and family life.

This week, she published on her social networks a photograph in which she appears with her husband, Juan Muñoz, in the Los Silos library, located in the old San Francisco convent in Madrid. At the bottom of the image, a phrase: ‘What changes life in an instant‘.

They say that that same day, Ana received the news of her illness. She faced it with courage and serenity. In our last conversation on WhatsApp, she sent us a message full of affection: “I’m fine and I’m going to be cured. A little kiss. Thanks for your interest in me, I really feel great“.

One of the doctors who treat her told Europa Press three days ago that “we do not know when Ana Rosa will be able to return to the set, when she wants to do it and announce it, she will,” they communicated.

Ana and I are friends and college classmates and we have shared many nights out to drink what was called “donkey’s milk” at the Chapandaz in Argüelles. Already then he showed extraordinary vigor and energy.

She had the makings of a leader and the passing of the years confirmed it. A source close to her reassures me: “She is a disciplined patient and follows exactly what her doctors dictate. She has incredible strength and will to live. It doesn’t break down for nothing. Now what he asks for is respect and tranquility”, they slip.

She was always disciplined. In his studies and in his personal life. Challenges motivate her and she doesn’t shy away from anything. It is she who encourages others and her integrity is an example. Ana has already overcome a similar trance and will do it again.