Melpo Zarokosta: 24 years after mastectomy, I almost say I moved cancer

With love and gratitude she remembers him. The well-known actress spoke to the magazine Well about both her great colleague and her adventure with cancer. “I wouldn’t call Lampros Constantara quirky. He was a sensitive man, suffered a lot on a psychological level. I’m sorry he left so early and took us from his exuberant artistic presence,” Melpo Zarokosta stressed. He did not hide the important role he played in her career, since when he returned from abroad, he took her to his troupe. “It was a rare theatrical phenomenon, I owe him a lot. When I came from abroad in the late 50s, he literally grabbed me in his troupe, and he helped me in my first steps, so that I could be established slowly in Greece,” he said. “Have you ever arrived near death?”, asked. “In addition to cancer, perhaps once a little girl, just before I went to school, when I fell from the first floor to my grandmother’s house in Jijifies. I luckily escaped it with bruises and a fracture in the hand,” Melpo Zarokosta replied. “After about 24 years of mastectomy, I have now left regular controls. I think I’m close to saying I beat cancer. Beat wood, however,” completed the great actress.