carmen sevilla will be cremated this Wednesday June 28 in the strictest privacy, as his only son has wished, Augusto Algueró, who has not separated from her in recent days. Since 2015, the legend of Spanish culture, who died this Tuesday at the age of 92, had been hospitalized in a geriatric residence, from which he left last Sunday to be transferred to the Jiménez Díaz Foundation, in Madrid, due to a deterioration in his condition. health. Since 2009 she suffered from Alzheimer’s.
Unlike other folkloric and eternal figures of Spanish culture such as Rocío Jurado, Lola Flores, Sara Montiel or Verónica Forqué, who died in December 2021, the former presenter of neighborhood cinema She will not have a public wake so that her friends can say goodbye to her or a burning chapel open to everyone who wants to come. As Telemadrid has recounted, the singer and actress leaves without public tributes, although she does with the love and recognition of an entire country that has grown up with her and has had fun with her characteristic smile and spontaneity.
Thus, this Wednesday afternoon she will be cremated in the strictest privacy at the Pozuelo de Alarcón funeral home, where her mortal remains have been transferred. In this way, she physically leaves this world as she has lived in recent years, completely removed from the media spotlight.
Carmen demonstrated from almost as a child that she had great showmanship. At just 17 years old, she made her film debut sponsored by none other than Estrellita Castro. She was so young that at the beginning of her, she had to deceive about her age, because she was underage.
She lived her last years apart from everything and everyone, lost in that impenetrable and cruel world of memory loss. Very few people knew everything about her: hers was her son Augusto J. Algueró and hers was her soulmate, Moncho Ferrer, veteran PR of the music world. The two have accompanied her to her deathbed. She had been practically isolated for some time in her residence without receiving visitors, as she requested her only son.
In 2010 she decided to retire due to the fact that there were more and more mistakes she had, being replaced in neighborhood cinema for her friend shell velascowho at 83 years old currently suffers from the ailments of age in a residence on the outskirts of Madrid.