No one is prepared to overcome a pain as great and devastating as the death of a child.
In the Mexican show business, some artists have had to face this sad battle and learn to live with their loss. Whether from a car accident, organized crime, or illness, their stories are heartbreaking and heartbreaking.
Next, we introduce you to 8 Mexican celebrities who have spoken openly about the death of their children and are an example of self-improvement and courage.
# 1 Lidia Avila
In 2006, the former member of OV7 lost her daughter Sofía, a baby girl just six months old. According to Avila’s statements, the little girl suffered from complications in the intestine and had to be operated on.
After she could not recover from the surgery, the singer and her then husband, the Argentine businessman Paulo Lauria, dedicated an emotional mass to her in the Basilica of Guadalupe.
# 2 Ferdinando Valencia
On August 3, 2019, Ferdinando Valencia and Brenda Kellerman’s baby died when he was only three months old, due to a bacteria that caused meningitis.
After receiving a misdiagnosis, it turned out that her little boy had hydrocephalus, a stroke, heart failure, pneumonia, and that his kidneys were no longer working.
Although Ferdinando was hopeful that his son would recover, he knew that this would not be possible when the doctors called him and asked him to say goodbye to the little boy.
“I said ‘God leave it to me, I want to enjoy life, I want it with me, please leave it to me,'” he mentioned in a conversation with Donkey Van Rankin.
# 3 Silvia Pinal
Silvia Pinal witnessed one of the saddest and most surprising deaths on Mexican television. On October 25, 1982, his daughter Viridiana Alatriste passed away at the age of 19, after she lost control of her car and fell into a ravine.
On several occasions, the golden film diva has told how she learned to live with this deep pain.
“Well, remembering her with great affection, trying not to forget her voice, to understand not why, but that it has already happened, that you have to survive and maybe one day you will meet her.”
# 4 Rocío Sánchez Azuara
In September 2019, the daughter of journalist Rocío Sánchez Azuara died after fighting for 20 years against an autoimmune disease that attacked her entire body.
Daniela Santiago Sánchez was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus at 12 years of age. They both learned to live with this condition; however, one day he began to weaken and never got better.
Azuara has related that, after the death of her daughter, she thinks that the young woman manifests herself in the form of a hummingbird, since every morning three birds come to visit her at her house.
«I have it with me every day. I have a hummingbird trough and she would stare at them and say ‘watch out, because when I go, if I go, I will come’. And there were always two of them and from the moment she left, there were three (…) ».
# 5 Carmen Salinas
Year after year, the emblematic Mexican television actress pays tribute to her son Pedro Plascencia, who died of cancer when he was about to turn 40.
In order to remember his departure and overcome the duel, Salinas visits his grave in the Spanish Pantheon and brings him flowers, sweets or souvenirs.
«I lived the moment when they told me: ‘your son has cancer’. I wanted to die. I hug mothers who have lost a child with all my love, “he said on the verge of tears in a interview.
# 6 Talina Fernandez
Talina Fernández has not been able to overcome the great blow of losing a daughter. On April 25, 2005, the driver learned the news confirming that her first-born, Mariana Levy, had died of a heart attack.
The tragedy occurred after she and her husband, José María Fernández, suffered an attempted assault while driving in Periférico. The event shocked Mariana so much that her heart failed.
Talina confessed that after this event, she had no desire to continue living:
«The pain of a mother is lived with the surprise of why I did not just have a heart attack? Why didn’t I die too? “
# 7 Jacqueline Bracamontes
The model and actress, Jacqueline Bracamontes, said that the death of her son Martín has been the saddest moment of her life.
During her first pregnancy, in 2013, she was notified along with her husband Martín Fuentes that they would be the parents of twins.
Fortunately for their marriage, their little princess Jacky was born without problems or complications, but the boy did not have the same luck.
«Today I consider that my Martincito was the savior of my baby, because maybe if only Jackycita had been in my belly it would have touched her. Martín’s mission in this life was to come and save my baby, he is my hero, ”he said in an interview.
# 8 Joan Sebastian
Before his death in 2015, the interpreter of ‘Tattoos’ experienced the death of two of his heirs. Sebastián Figueroa (32 years old) was killed outside a bar in Cuernavaca, on June 12, 2010.
On the other hand, Trigo Figueroa died of a shot in the head at the age of 27, at the end of a concert by the singer in Texas, United States.
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