“I’ve never had to seek people’s company,” the actress said.
“You know why?
Because people have always come to me.”
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Rita Morenodoesn’t want to be all by herself, at least not all the time.
“I said I didn’t know.
I didn’t know what was wrong,” Moreno recalled.
“I really didn’t understand what was happening.
I remember thinking, ‘I can’t go on like this.’
Why is this happening?”
“I’ve never had to seek people’s company,” she told PEOPLE.
“You know why?
Because people have always come to me.”
She continued: “One day I thought, ‘This is ridiculous.
“She said, ‘Lunch with you?
I said, ‘Yeah.’
She said, ‘Yeah.’
We went and had lunch,” Moreno recalled.
I told her the truth.
I said, ‘No, but you always have struck me as such a lovely person.
