Renowned Pakistani actress, Laila Wasti spoke about her cancer journey and revealed how she stayed positive throughout the treatment in a recent interview. She also shared her thoughts about nepotism as she is the daughter of famous stars Tahira Wasti and Rizwan Wasti.
The actress revealed that she was never interested in acting, she shared, “My mother and father used to encourage me a lot but I didn’t want to pursue it. I even learned playing harmonium as a child and even hated that; even though music really helped me later on in life. I was 16 or 17 when my mother had written a mystery play Begum Haveli and Kazim Pasha sahab was directing it and he asked me to act, and I love mysteries as a genre so I was intrigued.”
Laila also thinks that nepotism debate is unnecessary, she said, “I was born and raised in the environment where all the legendary artists and showbiz people were in my surroundings. It was inevitable for me to not know them and they offered me roles but I never took the profession for granted, once I started working. Nobody can survive here with consistent bad work if they have parents in the industry; it is impossible.”
Wasti talked about how she stayed strong throughout her cancer journey, she said, “What I have learnt it that if I cannot do 5 simple things in my life due to my differently-abled body, there are always 5 more things that I can do that someone else cannot. And I tend to focus on those 5 things and be great; shukar Alhumdulillah.”
She further stated, “If you focus on negativity, all you see is negativity, if you focus on positivity then you always see Allah and his light.”
Wasti also said that during her cancer treatment it was painful for her to see her husband in pain as he has been her rock.
