“My story deserves a documentary.” It seems that Sonia Monroy does not need a grandmother, but what she says is true, her story well deserves a documentary. Sonia Monroy in Spain is known for dozens and dozens of things, but none for what she has always wanted to be: an actress. That’s why she’s not in Spain, that’s why she left years ago and that’s why she doesn’t want to return. Sonia Monroy has established her life in Hollywood and, although she admits that she earns much less money than what she earned here from set to set, she is happy there, “even with my hardships.”

Everyone remembers Sonia Monroy for being the famous silhouette of Tonight we cross the Mississippi. That’s where she got the fame that it has cost her to live chained to a stereotype that in Spain has never been able to be removed. But in that documentary that would be her life, Pepe Navarro and the Mississippi is one more anecdote. The story of Sonia Monroy is not yet written. Where is that Sex Bomb? What does she do? Where she comes from? It’s not the documentary her life would be worth, but it could be her first screenplay, and she would certainly write it.

In fact, the story of Sonia Monroy is linked by an unbreakable umbilical cord with her family. Her father her tenor, her mother her actress, both at the Liceo de Barcelona. Sonia Monroy grew up among great figures such as Josep Carreras, Plácido Domingo or Montserrat Caballé. As she left school, both she and her brothers flew away to the Lyceum. That’s where her passion for acting was born and that’s where she got her first opportunity. She was only six years old.

My life has always been marked by death

When she talks about those years, the Barcelona Lyceum, her first roles, the madness she got into with her brother Peter when they set up their first music group when she was only 13 years old and toured half of Spain from gig to gig, Sonia Monroy’s voice seems to crack. She gets excited. She confesses: “My life has always been marked by death. When my brother Peter died I went to Madrid, when my father died I came to Los Angeles to fight and I’m still here.”

In Spain, Sonia Monroy is remembered for the Mississippi, for Crónicas Marcianas, for her fights, for her relationships, for that ballast that she has tried to get rid of so many times and has never been able to. When she travels to Spain, they always identify her with those years, those from more than a decade ago, the one she has taken to the other side of the pond.

At the age of 16 Sonia Monroy began working as a stewardess on TV3 programs, at 18 as a comic actress with Alfonso Arús and after that she made the leap to Madrid. “My brother to whom she was closest and with whom she sang died and I went into a depression,” says the artist. “I didn’t want to act anymore, or sing and it took me a long time to recover. I went to the psychologist and she was the one who told me that a change of scenery would do me good and I went to Madrid.”

From there she became a reporter for TNT, collaborated on A tu lado and Crónicas Marcianas arrived. Eight years with Javier Sardá, the years in which we saw Sonia Monroy bitten in the ass by a snake live, the years in which Sonia Monroy invented escaping from the set, the years in which one day she was in Tómbola, the next in Vitamin N, she returned to Crónicas Marcianas, she was a scoundrel reporter, she accepted everything that was proposed to her. And the music, the music could not be left out.

Sonia Monroy created the Sex Bomb and hit it off. “I set it all up and took care of everything,” she says. “I chose three girls who were not known, they were go-go girls, I taught them to dance. I only sang. I went crazy with the casting,” she recounts. It was an incredible success, but Sonia Monroy got tired: “We spent two years until I couldn’t stretch the rope anymore because I had everything and I couldn’t handle everything. I was exhausted.”

The American dream is over… But another one began, the one that she promised her father before he died: “I told him that I would fight for my dream and only for him, to be an actress.”

People see me as fun and positive, but when the roller coaster goes down I sink a lot.

Sonia Monroy triumphs on the other side of the pond with her YouTube series My Hollywood dream sucks. In addition, she reveals to us that her project that she has completely absorbed is the documentary about her mother’s disease: Alzheimer’s. When Sonia Monroy was starting her career in Hollywood again, she had to return to Spain: her mother had fallen ill and she had to be with her. From that tragic experience, the actress has created Remembering my mother while she forgets me, the documentary about the seven years she lived with her mother’s Alzheimer’s. “I have a hard time editing it because I put the images and I collapse,” she relates. It is with the trailer, the next thing to sell it to a platform.

My dream to fulfill is to make a movie with Tom Cruise. Let’s see if he comes looking for me

Because of Sonia, I could continue with the interview for hours and hours. It doesn’t matter the nine hours of difference with Los Angeles, that I haven’t slept yet, that tomorrow I have filming. She likes to tell and, above all, to tell what nobody knows about her.

-We have to say goodbye, Sonia…

-Okay, but let it be clear that I don’t regret the life I’ve had because my life is extremely entertaining. Get the dance out of me!