Casagrande explained his absence at the funeral of the King of Football
Walter Casagrande, former footballer and sports commentator, missed the vigil in Pel, held this Monday (2/1).
On the SportBuzz website, Casagrande said he decided not to attend the ceremony for fear of an emotional backlash. He told the vehicle that he follows the rules of avoiding strong emotions, which, he says, have been frequent since he’s been off drugs and starting to stay sober.
“I don’t run the risk of drug relapses, but I do run the risk of emotional relapses. In the treatment I have today, I use antidepressants, anxiolytics, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers. All this in order not to have an emotional fall. I was frozen for a long time time since drug addiction and, when I came clean and started to see life as it is, the emotions started to hit me really hard,” he said.
Fearing the impact that the wake, celebrated in Vila Belmiro, in Santos, on the coast of São Paulo could cause, Casagrande did not greet the soccer king himself.
“I didn’t see my father in the coffin, died in 2020, I didn’t see my mother, I didn’t see Socrates [colega dele no Corinthians]”, he says. Casagrande says the deaths of Gal Costa, J Soares, Rolando Boldrin and Isabel Salgado made him cry a lot. “It’s not an excuse, it’s a fact of life.”
