Charo shared her outlook on aging and why she values the wisdom she now has.
The “Love Boat” alum, 75, said she’s choosing to embrace growing older, and boiled it down to making a positive choice.
“You get two choices. Very simple,” she explained to Fox News Digital in an interview published Sunday.
“One, despair, cry, depression, feeling terrible. Another, eh, I’m going to take a second choice because I’m going to be wiser,” she continued. “Nobody’s going to screw me like they did before. I’m going to learn from my mistakes.”
Charo said she’s still looking for “new adventures.”
“I’m going to be taking care of myself,” she added, though noted that she has no issues in indulging in a glass of champagne or a piece of chocolate.
Charo shared that there were still things for her to look forward to.
“Every year you learn something,” she said. “Every year is something new. Every year you have new friends.”
“So it’s better to be alive and clever than to be feeling stupid, crying in a corner,” she added. “I take the second choice.”
The Spanish singer and actress also reflected on continuing on after her husband, Kjell Rasten, died by suicide in 2019.
Charo acknowledged she was “lost” after the incident but learned to accept it as time passed.
“Time made me grow up and understand that he died, and I cannot do anything but see his picture and pray for him, ” she said. “But you grow, and you go, ‘OK, God, let me live. What good can I do? Can I enjoy life?’”
Charo spoke about her late husband back in July 2019, sharing that she “had no clues at all” that he was going to take his own life.
The two had been married for over 40 years and shared a son together, Shel, now 44.
“He was the best husband, the best father, the best companion … [on] February 18, at 9 o’clock he shot himself but he didn’t want me to find him,” she recalled during an appearance on “The Talk.”
But she did end up finding him in an alley.
“‘He did not fall down, he put a bullet in his head,’” she said the police told her. “In that moment I had a bullet in my heart.”
Rasten was 79 years old.
