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Dana International (Photo: Or Gefen)
We are used to seeing Dana International as a funny, flamboyant and lively woman, one who buries every interview and makes sure to keep her personal life away from the public eye.
Today (Sunday) International uploaded an emotional post to her Instagram account, and wrote about a complex period she went through during the filming of the show "Dana Kama".
"From the first day I became famous, I decided that I'm not hiding anything. I am who I am. I'm not ashamed of anything and I don't try to present an image to be loved. I've always said - it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you're not really. So even now, I'm loyal to myself and to you , I share and tell and hope that the words will give strength and courage to those who have experienced what I have experienced, and also to me, who have not yet dared to speak about it."
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Dana continued and wrote very sensitively about the depression that attacked her: "During a thirty-year career, I made sure to maintain privacy and left to myself and those close to me the Dana behind the image. The Dana of the house. Suddenly it changed. It was not easy and during the filming, after a few months, I broke down.
More than once I felt that I was also weakening - I had to be this Dana of the image.
I never went to therapy (which is a pity) and I didn't really let myself be weak.
And suddenly, it happened, all at once and powerfully.
I broke down.
For the first time in my career and life I felt that I could not do it anymore.
Sadness and depression took over me.
Like an evil monster that swallowed me into it.
The morning came, but it did not come to me.
The evening has fallen and I am not with him.
The nights became difficult for me and I did not sleep.
When I realized that this unpleasant situation would not go away, I decided to fight.
Not to submit to him, not to be ashamed, take care of myself.
In 2023, when medicine advances, and we use doctors and pills when the body weakens, it is obligatory to use medicine even when the soul suddenly weakens.
It's not a shame.
It's pride.
I took a break from filming and the world.
I took care of myself.
There are no magic cures and the nagging sadness doesn't go away in a day.
But I'm behind.
facing forward.
You have asked many times lately what happened to me.
So here is the answer.
I am calmer, more peaceful, think more, maybe even more balanced.
It amuses me how much you miss the brash, aggressive, loud Dana.
do not worry.
She is here with me and she will stay with us forever.
You won't get rid of her so quickly.
I am in a new period and this crisis is behind me.
I hope that this story of mine will give hope and light and strength to everyone who has gone through and is going through a journey similar to mine.
Always remember that showing weakness is not weakness and the opposite - it indicates power and strength."
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