Jackie Cruz Almost Died In An Accident

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

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Jackie Cruz closes this year with many successes. In addition to being the image of the new Kat Von D mask, the actress of Dominican descent is premiere with her album Hija de Chávez and is about to shoot a new film in Thailand.

But not everything has been honey over flakes in the life of the artist, who told us about the accident that almost cost her life and the obstacles she has faced in Hollywood.

Music or acting?

I have always been a singer. I stopped acting a bit because when I was in Los Angeles I wasn't doing very well. I am Dominican and it is a little different how I look, Mexicans work more than Dominicans.

I moved to New York and then my first audition was for Skinny from the Orange Is the New Black series, this is how God works. I have never stopped singing. I want people to understand that music since the age of six has been my great love.

Why do you have to listen to your new album Hija de Chávez?

I want people to listen to my album so that they know me more, so that they know who I am, that I am more than skinny. Let them know that I came from the Dominican Republic so that they know that I am Chávez. I grew up in Santiago, many people don't know it, and I moved to the United States when I was 15 years old. I do not forget my country, I am also an American, I have music like blues too.

How was your childhood?

I was raised by five women: my mom and her sisters. The problem is that my mom was never with work, she lived with my aunts. The first time was when we moved to Los Angeles and there I became rebellious, I left classes.

We know you had an accident …

I lost my hair because of my car accident when I was 17 years old. I went out the window. I dedicate one of my songs to one of the girls who saw me in the hospital and I looked beautiful even though I felt ugly, even though I wanted to die. I thought Hollywood is made for beauty and how beautiful life had given me I had lost. My mom told me that I had to work harder.

And your father?

I never had my father. Not because of them, but they kept me very young and you know that men mature later that is why my album Daughter … explains how I feel about my father. I don't want him to be mad at me. I write my music as therapy and perhaps men understand music more than words.

Are you single?

This world of music is very lonely. I think relationships have been very difficult for me.

Has it been difficult being in Hollywood?

Hollywood tried to change me. My way of being, my way of seeing myself, my way of communicating, and I don't care anymore, I want to be just me. If you don't like that I'm too emotional and too dramatic, well, that's me. If you don't love me now, you will never love me. I learned to be myself and that I don't care what people think, including my family. If you don't like it, I'm going to close the door on you. I want by my side the people who believe in me, the people who tell me the truth.

When I sing I forget all the problems in the world. So I have a study in my house, that was one of my dreams, if I have nothing to do I am writing.

What are your projects for the next year?

There are many good things coming, there are movies, I'm going to Thailand to film a tape. 2020 is going to be a very strong year.