Carmen Sevilla, 92, admitted to a Madrid hospital in serious condition

Carmen Sevilla, who turned 92 in October, is admitted to a Madrid hospital, where she was transferred this Sunday, June 25, from her nursing home. A complication of her state of health has caused her situation to be described as worrisome and her diagnosis is serious, according to the Formula TV portal.

Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s since 2009, she has barely reappeared in public for 13 years. In 2010, she handed over the baton for Cine de barrio to shell velasco and was later interviewed by María Teresa Campos in What a happy time! and visited her old program on La 1 as a guest.

In 2012 her illness was made public and three years later she was admitted to a specialized residence. , Carmen Sevilla has been practically isolated for a long time in her residence without receiving visitors, as requested by her only son Augusto Algueró.

It was precisely her son, the result of her marriage to the musician and composer Augusto Algueró, who told us on his last birthday, in October, how he was feeling Carmen Seville: “Her condition is complicated, but she remains stable within her situation. The only thing that matters is that she is well cared for and cared for by great professionals who are watching over her at all times,” she said then. She then confirmed to us that she no longer recognized him. “Unfortunately no, but she receives the signs of affection and affection that we give her. It is a hard and difficult situation for everyone, but we carry it the best we can. She has been sick for a long time,” she explained.

Carmen Sevilla, in addition to being a great actress, belongs to that breed of essential classics of our folklore, one of the greats like her friends Lola Flores, Rocío Jurado or Concha Piquer.

In addition to being a singer and actress, she was a much-loved presenter, with her little sheep, her “little coupon” and her distractions. María del Carmen García Galisteo, known as Carmen Sevilla, was born on October 16, 1930 and soon became one of the most important figures in our country. She is the daughter of Antonio García Padilla, who worked composing lyrics for great artists such as Concha Piquer, Imperio Argentina and Estrellita Castro and died on February 17, 1987; and Florentina Galisteo Ramírez, who lived to be almost 100 years old.

Carmen Sevilla 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.

That early white lie led to the misrepresentation of his true date of birth in many biographies. Her impressiveness, her Sevillian sympathy and her characteristic smile made her “the sweetheart of Spain” for decades and in her long professional career she had numerous suitors.

He gave pumpkins to the bullfighter Carlos Arruza, to the king of the operetta, Luis Mariano and to the comic actor Mario Moreno ‘Cantinflas’. All of them, except Luis Mariano, accompanied their processions with valuable jewels, which Carmen returned to them.

We only know of two lucky ones who managed to break the heart of Carmen Sevilla. Augusto Algueró, the father of her son, married her in 1961. The marriage lasted 13 years and, in 1974, they divorced after several failed attempts to save her love.

The actress once again said ‘yes, I want’ with Vicente Patuel in 1985 with whom she lived a great love until the year 2000, when he passed away. Her wedding to Patuel led her to a period of retirement from public life, a decision she made freely.

But years later, when he turned 60, he returned to the fray and began a brilliant television career with shows like neighborhood cinema or the Telecupón, after Valerio Lararov recovered it for the first stages of Telecinco.

In 2010 she decided to retire due to the fact that she had more and more mistakes, being replaced by Concha Velasco who now also lives in a residence like her.

Carmen Sevilla was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2009 and in 2015 her family decided that it was best for her to live in a residence where she would be well cared for by professionals who knew how to cover all her needs.

Augusto Algueró revealed in an interview for Diez Minutos that he frequently goes to visit his mother, Carmen Sevilla, at the residence. “As much as I can, I am very close to my mother and I like to be constantly aware and informed,” he said.

Augusto’s grandmother and mother of Carmen Sevilla lived to be 100 years old but during the last period of her life she had to fight against Alzheimer’s, a disease that she always admitted to being afraid of suffering and that she was finally diagnosed with.

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Although they were divorced, they had a child together, and Carmen mourned the death of her first husband, Augusto Algueró. The composer passed away due to cardiorespiratory arrest while he was sleeping on January 16, 2011 in Torremolinos.

In 2010, Carmen Sevilla’s Alzheimer’s disease worsened considerably and, in 2015, it was revealed that she was admitted to a specialized residence.

Away from public life because she suffered from memory loss, we saw her walking through the streets of Madrid with her only son and her grandchildren, a very difficult image to see since Augusto Algueró He has wanted to maintain a very discreet life.

Apart from his son, his soul friend, Moncho Ferrera public relations veteran of the world of music, has ever visited her.

His wedding in the basilica of Pilar de Zaragoza, in February 1961, with the composer Augusto AlgueróIt was a national event. From her marriage to the famous arranger, her only child, Augustito, was born, but the relationship broke up after 13 years together. Shortly after Carmen she fell in love with the film businessman vincent patuelwith whom he could not marry until years later, since he was still married.

Finally, they celebrated the wedding in the palace of the Duke of Ahumada, in Arcos de la Frontera when Patuel obtained the divorce.

The background of the report on the civil wedding of the actress and the businessman is worthy of a soap opera. And it is that then, Jaime Penafieldirector of Magazinethe weekly of Grupo Zeta, launched to compete with Hola, of which Peñafiel had been the editor-in-chief. The journalist got the exclusive on the ceremony after maneuvering in absolute secrecy for months so that no one knew the date or the place where it would be held.

Not even the bride and groom knew the details of their own wedding until the last moment, which finally took place at three in the afternoon, a strange time, in order to avoid any leaks. Augustito, the son of the bride, did not even attend so as not to give clues to the ceremony.

Peñafiel paid 25 million pesetas for the exclusive but assures that the entire operation cost him almost 40 million pesetas, a fabulous figure never before handled in the gossip. Vicente Patuel put a gun on the table to demand an advance of 10 million. At that time, Patuel had financial problems and was willing to do anything to remedy them.

This second marriage separated Carmen from the entertainment world. The couple dedicated themselves to the fields on the Patuel farm in Extremadura, where Carmen made her phrase about the sheep famous. But there is no idyllic field that can remove a great artist from her vocation and her return in the 90s brought her back to film and television.

Patuel’s sudden death in the year 2000 did not completely separate her from the screens, although on television, with programs like Look who is dancing o neighborhood cinemafound the closest contact with a dedicated public.

It is difficult to sum up his extraordinary and long cinematic career that spans all genres. In addition to her innumerable titles, of a traditional and folkloric nature, Carmen was a pioneer by participating in European and American co-productions, where she appeared alongside actors such as Gary Cooper o Frank Sinatraalthough he rejected a seven-year contract in Hollywood and preferred to stay in Spain.

He worked with Mexican idol Jorge Negrete. With Luis Mariano, already an international artist he made Imperial Violets. She was the protagonist of The revenge by Juan Antonio Bardem, the first Spanish film to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. He took part in titles with Paulette Goddard, Charlton Heston, Victor de Sica y Raf Vallone.

And in the 70s he knew how to reinvent himself and play roles in dramatic and erotic films. With the glass ceilingof Eloy de la Iglesiareceived the best actress award from El Círculo de Escritores.

The last time we saw her on the small screen was on October 15, 2016. It was an interview that she did Maria Teresa Camposrecorded five years earlier on the occasion of his eighty-first birthday.

Since then Carmen is only an indelible memory in the memory of the people. Your son Augusto she has shielded her image and her news so that the public that adores her has a memory of the mature Carmen, still beautiful and close that we all have in our memory.