Eva La Rue, Star of CSI: Miami,

By Allison Kugel, Senior Editor

Eva La Rue, Star of CSI: Miami

PR.com: And you’re a part of the Bahai faith. Is that your religion?

Eva La Rue: Yeah. We believe that everybody’s prophets came to teach basically the same word of God. We believe that there is one God, one people, one world and that everybody’s prophet is right and it’s the people that have sort of dogmatized [it] and religion has taken on a totally different meaning. They’re all at war with each other, but it’s the same truthful message. We basically believe that the reason there were different prophets in different parts of the world is because there were no telephones or newspapers. The only way to get your word out would be through human contact, so God put different prophets in different parts of the world so that everybody could have the word of God and that it’s the same spiritual truth.

PR.com: Were you born into the Bahai religion, or was it something that you discovered on your own?

Eva La Rue: It was something that, when I was a teenager, my mom discovered. You’re obviously born into a Bahai family if your parents are both Bahai, but you can’t become a Bahai until you’re fifteen. They don’t want you to be one just because you’re born one. They want you to make a personal, confident decision. You’re actually encouraged as a teenager to go and study all the religions and make a choice for yourself, and not just be a blind follower… of anything.

PR.com: With many of the people I’ve interviewed, I have spoken about various religions with them, whether because religion was a part of their public persona or just because it happened to come up in the conversation, and that makes more sense then just about anything I’ve ever heard as far as religion goes (laughs). That’s called using your brain.

Eva La Rue: (Laughs) It’s an educated choice. Somebody else choosing your religion for you just because

you were born into it doesn’t make sense

PR.com: I also want to talk to you about some of your charity work…

Eva La Rue: I’m the spokesperson for The National Ovarian Cancer Coalition, because my grandmother and my great-grandmother both died from Ovarian Cancer. I’m actually going out this weekend to their big conference in Texas, The National Ovarian Cancer Coalition Conference. We’re going to tour one of the really big research facilities out there. So I’m kind of psyched about that because I haven’t been out there.

PR.com: I’m sure since it runs in your family, you get checked…

Eva La Rue: Yeah, but the scary thing about Ovarian Cancer is that there’s no easy test to take. There are blood tests that can be markers for it, but mostly you have to just be aware of your body. When you know that you have pain or swelling in your abdomen and its persistent, where you’ve had it for more then a week or two, don’t just blow it off. You have to go get checked

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