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Welcome to the Eric Matax Show. It's the show featuring go go the chip. Nothing like a chip to live in a radio show. Easy there. Go go. Go go. No. No. Go go. No. Now your host Eric Matax.

That is so dumb. How could you not love it? Folks. It's Eric Matax a show and boy did we have a show for you. I'm sitting here in the studio with my friend April Hernandez Castillo. Now April and I have become friends and we joke around way too much. So April you better watch it. Okay.

Okay. Because we're going to get serious now. Okay. No joking. We want to we're going to it's so great to have you here. It's so great. It's so great to have you here. And I we've talked about this. Your you you have an amazing story.

That I want to tell we're going to this is going to be a miracle Monday. You've told it on this program before but never in this studio. Okay. And it's just it's a beautiful story. And I want the world to know the story. It's why I do this show. When I heard your story. I said.

I want everybody I know to hear this story. So but I want to encase people don't know who you are. It says on the paper here that you're an actress. Is this is this true. Sometimes. No, you are listen. The the measure of success. You're you're best known for the film freedom writers with Hillary swank. And in that you played the role of Eva. Eva. Eva.

And when we were in the airport together don't tell my wife but we travel a lot. And you were recognized. I mean it's a big deal movie for a lot of people. And but I mean you're an actress you've written a book called your voice your choice. We've talked about this before we'll get to all this. But your most famous as an actress for that role. Yes.

You sure. Sometimes. Okay. And I realized what a big deal it was when I told my niece Malena. Because Malena doesn't care about anything. She's dead inside. And I said Malena you know it was coming in the freedom writers and she said what what no way no way. So she was so excited. And she's sitting over there don't look at her. I won't. But so a lot of people know you as an actress. But when you told your story.

In my book miracle I have a copy of the book look here miracles. Milagros. The response was unbelievable. It's an important story. So I want to talk about the story. Right. So in order to tell the story.

We have to go back. We're both New Yorkers. We are. Okay. So this all took place in New York. Yes. In the book. Well I grew up in the Bronx. Okay. So but now you're a wife and a mother of two beautiful girls. Thank you.

Right. Oh my gosh. They're so cute. They're very cute. But this is this happened a while ago now. This is some years ago. It did. And when you told me the story on the plane that time I just thought, oh my gosh. I have a show specifically to tell people stories like this. So where do we begin. This is before you became an actress. Yes. This is. I think before anything. It was just I was in a situation that I was in an

abusive relationship. I was able to leave. But unfortunately I then became pregnant. You were I mean obviously from what you just said you were not walking with God. So to speak. You were just. I grew up Catholic. Yeah. Which I mean, you know, usually doesn't mean anything. Right. You know. So. But I'm saying so you were in an abusive relationship with this man. You managed to get out of it. Yes. And you do a lot of speaking on domestic abuse and all this kind of stuff. You imagine to get out

of it. But you get out of it. And then you find out. I'm pregnant. You're pregnant. And you were like you were like crashing down. How old are you at the time? I want to say I was about 19, 19 and a half. That's what you that's what you said. The 19. It's in the book. So it has to be right. It has. So. So you were 19. I was 19. Okay. You find it. You're pregnant. Now what? Then my world crashed because I knew in my mind and in my heart that I was not willing

to bring a baby into this world, especially because I knew that this man would be in my life forever. If he chose to, but you're not thinking that far, you're just thinking in the moment. And my gut reaction was, well, I'm just going to have an abortion. And it was so easy. It really is easy. It's not something that, especially all of your friends are pretty conditioned to say. There's never. Well, there are other options. It's always, are you going to have it or what you can

do? I mean, we already know what that what are you going to do means? It means you're going to have an abortion. And so I didn't really tell a lot of people. I was able to get help. And then I made the appointment for the abortion. And the appointment was in Manhattan. Manhattan. And you're from the girl from the Bronx. Yes. Okay. It was on Park Avenue and a very, very nice corporate building. It's like down on 33rd Street. I know the building. A very few people know what's going on in that building. It's a big building. You don't realize.

That something like that evil could be happening. Okay. So your kid, you decide to do this because that's the cultural pressure. Of course, what else you can do? There's no other options. You have to do this. So, so what is that experience? I mean, even going up to that point, were you thinking about what you're doing or what, what, what influences are on you at that point? Or is it just something you're just going to go and do it? I think you just once you make up your mind, especially to do something like that. Yeah.

It's pretty much made up unless you have a miracle happen where something just just comes inside of you and you say, you know what? I'm not going to do this. But I was, I made up my mind. And what's so funny was that morning. I think the night before was the first time I, you know, threw up. And for me, it was real. Like, oh, my goodness. I have a child inside of me. These are some of some of the symptoms that go on. I guess when you become pregnant. And then Saturday morning, I woke up.

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