Former PasellaTV personality and 7de Laanactress Crystal-Donna Roberts lost her battle to breast cancer on Thursday morning, 6 March.
CRYSTAL-DONNA ROBERTS BATTLED BREAST CANCER
The award-winning actress Crystal-Donna Roberts, who passed awayin her home opened up about her cancer journey in an interview with Stylvol.
Roberts who was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2019 revealed to the publication that losing her hair was more traumatic than losing her breasts.
“To lose my hair was more traumatic than my breasts. My breasts were ‘sick’, and I understand they had to go, but there was nothing wrong with my hair,” she said.
The fan-favourite actress also revealed that her hair was part of her identity and origins.
Roberts also admitted in the interview that she tried to keep her hair during chemo by practicing the cold cap technique. But her hair fell out three weeks after her first chemo session.
According to the Breast Cancer organisation, the cold cap technique is similar to ice packs. You wear a type of cap with dry ice between 20 or 30 degrees celcius during chemo.
You keep the cold caps in a cooler with dry ice or in a special biomedical freezer before wearing them. Each cap warms up and thaws while you wear it, so you need to replace it with a new cold cap every 20 to 30 minutes during a chemotherapy infusion session.
HER ROLES IN ‘7DE LAAN’ AND ‘ARENDSVLEI’
The celebrated actress Crystal-Donna Roberts is famously known for playing a drug addict, Janine in SABC2’s soapie, 7de Laan.
In 2010, Roberts starred in kykNET drama series Vallei van Sluiers as Charmaine Willemse for four seasons.
TVSAreports that Roberts also played the role of Janice Cupido on the kykNET’s soapie Arendsvlei from 2018-2024. She also played the character of Bijou in SABC1’s drama series Montana and appeared in Getroud Met Rugby, Die Boland Moorde and Die Byl.
The TV personality also won a Safta for Best Actress in a Feature Film, Krotoa in 2018. Additionally, she presented SABC2’s popular magazine programme Pasella.
The actress and TV presenter also starred in feature films, Die Ongelooflike Avonture van Hanna Hoekom, Skeem, Chronicle, The Endless River, Tussen as en Hoop,
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