Belén Rueda Reveals How a Stroke Saved Her Life

Belén Rueda embarked on the 'Planeta Calleja' adventure across the Red Sea alongside Eva Hache, Santiago Segura, David Bisbal, and his wife, Rossana Zanetti. This experience fosters reflections and conversations with Jesús Calleja, where we uncover some of the most intimate experiences of our celebrities. In this instance, the renowned actress revealed how a stroke she suffered years ago saved her life. "It was a transient stroke, but thanks to that, they performed a CT scan on my head, and I never had headaches, and they discovered an aneurysm," she recounted. An abnormal bulge in the walls of a blood vessel in the brain, which, if left undiscovered, could have had fatal consequences.

After detecting the aneurysm, a stent was implanted through the femoral artery to the head. "I have a stent, which I find fascinating, through the femoral artery. When I finished, the neurologist, who is like God to me, said, 'Now you're better than before,'" she recalled.

Moreover, Belén explained that she kept her ailment a secret for some time. "For a long time, Jesús, you don't want to say it," she stated. "It can affect your work because people treat you differently. It affects everything. In this job, even more so," she reflected. However, she did not go through the process alone, as her family was by her side at all times.