A few years ago, the famous Polish actress Barbara Brylska gave a very personal interview in which she spoke about the biggest and bitter loss in her life, with which she can’t put up with. After the death of her beloved daughter, she desperately wrote letters to her and wanted to commit suicide. Brylska admitted that she was saved by a second child - her son Ludwig, who asked her mother to live for him.
Failed marriages
Barbara Cosmal was born in 1973 in the second marriage of the popular artist and ordinary doctor. Brylsky’s first marriage was unsuccessful, and she quickly divorced her peer, who began to cheat on her. After the screening of the historical drama “Pharaoh,” in which she played the priestess of the temple, fueled by passions, Barbara becomes very popular. She even had a short-term affair with a leading actor, quickly ending after filming.
Spoiled by the attention of the richest and most famous men of Poland, Brylska surprises everyone with a new choice, marrying a gynecologist with modest incomes, but possessing attractive external data, because the actress constantly said that it was very important for her how her second half looked.
However, this complex marriage was cracking at the seams. The husband did not become a successful doctor and pulled money from a well-known wife who experienced temporary lack of demand in the cinema. Anti-Soviet sentiment in Poland intensified, and after the success of the comedy Eldar Ryazanov, in which Barbara played a major role, many considered her a traitor to the country.
Mother's happiness
In such difficult times, her children became the joy for the soul and heart of Brylsky, who were named just like their parents, despite the fact that according to some traditions, the daughter should not be given the name of her mother. It so happened that Barbara Cosmal, whose biography turned out to be very short, lived only twenty years.
Her mother considered the birth of her daughter a real miracle, because for a long time she could not bear a child. The real beauty, whom Basia affectionately called Basia, surprised with various talents: an educated girl, who was reputed to be a very erudite person, successfully worked as a model and starred in films.
Having a stunning appearance, which was inherited from her mother, Barbara Cosmal as a model was known far beyond Poland, working on the catwalks of France and Japan. Her magnificent pictures in magazines were admired, and the girl herself was bombarded with love confessions. Having become a popular fashion model, Basya does not rest on his laurels, but dreams of conquering the big screen.
Barbara Cosmal: movies
Inheriting from her mother not only expressive facial features, but also acting talent, Basya at the age of 15 tries himself as an actress, acting in the historical drama “Full Moon Hour”. Three years later, she participates in the joint film project of Poland and Great Britain, “Motive of Shadows”, and plays a small role in the science-fiction film “The Flying Dutchman”, which appeared on the big screen after the tragic death of the girl.
At the casting, she was approved for the role in the historical epic “Fire and Sword”, however, she never started filming.
Terrible tragedy
Basi's mother was unusually proud of the successes of her talented daughter, believing that she had great prospects and those heights that Brylska herself had not reached. An absurd accident took the girl’s life at the very beginning of her career.
As if anticipating her own death, on the eve of the trip with her friend Barbara Cosmal called her mother in tears, telling about a terrible dream, in which she had no teeth. Brylska, who arrived at the scene of the accident, recalled that they really had been knocked out of her daughter from a terrible blow.
On May 15, 1993, Basi's friend, the son of the director A. Zhulavsky, invited her to go to rest outside the city, and the girl, tired of the many filming, did not refuse. At one of the turns, the young driver lost control and crashed into a tree. On this day, Barbara Cosmal was tragically killed. The accident that happened to her daughter became a very difficult test for her mother. The actress said that she cried for three years and lived only on tablets.
Life before and after
She does not blame Xavier Zulawski, who did not receive a single scratch that day, but does not want to see him, although they used to communicate. The young man did not apologize, but cried with his mother. Barbara even thought that she was crazy: “He killed my daughter, but I do not treat him badly. It’s not normal! ” A woman who was darkened with grief was advised to sue the offspring of a wealthy family, but she immediately stopped such statements, surprised at the heartlessness of people who looked with interest at the tragedy that happened in the family, as if it were a play.
For Brylsky, life was divided into before and after the accident. Now she is trying to think less about what happened more than twenty years ago, although she says that as soon as she remembers her daughter, she begins to sob. “Tears just tear me apart, but you can already live,” the Polish actress finally admitted to herself.
Mystical Farewell
Heavily surviving the tragedy, Brylska wrote to the deceased daughter words that she had not said to her during her lifetime. She almost went crazy with grief and did not know what to do next, until one mystical incident occurred.
In the house of a woman aged several years, a telephone rang, picking up the phone, the actress heard the voice of her daughter, who was interested in how her mother was doing. After some time, she called again, and in the pool, on the very spot where little Barbara Cosmal left a trace of her hand, a noticeable crack appeared.
Brylska understood that so Basia says goodbye to her and asks not to disturb her restless soul anymore.