Carmen Sevilla’s friends, outraged by her son’s decision: “This is not the farewell she wanted”

The beloved actress and presenter passed away this Tuesday at the age of 92 after entering the Jiménez Díaz Foundation suffering from pneumonia. Carmen Sevilla, she lived in an exclusive residence in Aravaca since, in 2009, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Her mortal remains have been cremated in the Pozuelo de Alarcón funeral home in the strictest privacy at the express wish of his only son, Augusto Alguerówho has not wanted to open a funeral chapel or pay homage to his mother before the last goodbye.

A decision, that of her son, highly criticized by Carmen Sevilla’s closest friends, who are sad and outraged that one of the most important figures in Spanish art and communication “leaves” in such a discreet and silent way: “It was a woman who was liked by everyone, who got along with everyone. Nice, simple, caring… She loved people. She was happy surrounded by people. You went somewhere and she loved when people came closer , kissed her, recognized her. She was famous and she loved that people loved her,” he said on Wednesday Rappel in Telecinco. “I am against what your son has done. He is his son, highly respected, but that was not his mother’s will. I have known her as if she were my sister, we have been friends for 50 years, that warmth of The people would have loved it. That today, with her body present, there would have been a wake, that all of Madrid would have turned upside down and that they would have paraded her around Madrid or that they would have placed her, as Lola Flores was, in the Plaza de Colón in a funeral home with an ardent chapel. Carmen would be happy there”.

Same opinion of Tino Fernandez, the one who was her driver: “She would have liked the people, who are the ones who loved her, to have said goodbye to her. It is impossible to talk to her son. When they do not answer you twice, I do not call again.” And he added: “Carmen adored flowers and there is not even a bouquet of flowers for Carmen.”

the journalist Rosa Villacastin He confessed along the same lines: “I understand his son, that he has not let us go see her so that we can maintain the image of his mother as she was. He is his son, but Carmen was a great artist, she was Carmen from Spain, she was the Spain’s most beloved artist… She was the most generous in the world… Close, close friends, we would have liked to say goodbye to her even if it was in a closed box”.

From Antena 3, the same thing: “Carmen Sevilla was not just her son’s, she was from all of Spain and we all had the right to say goodbye to her,” he said michael lake. “She would not have liked this”, he has corroborated Maximo Valverde.