“He took pills and found him lying on the floor”

17 years ago that Rocco Walter Torrebruno Orgini He lost his life because of a heart failure. He was 65 years old. Sympathetic and charismatic, the Italian showman who conquered the children’s audience with his songs and his dolls had a hidden face that very few knew. Blanca Villa He was one of the few and this Monday has remembered how his great love story was: “Torrebruno’s girlfriends had to pass the filter of their sister Maria, I fell great.”

From the set of Sonsoles, the actress has recalled those years: “He worked in the bank, but always sang very well and when they had meetings or went on a trip she sang with her guitar. In France and in Mexico it was a great figure, then arrived in Spain and touched Diana. He was a multifaceted and very intelligent man.”

The artist, who was very short (161 cm.) And felt predilection for high women, fell in love with Blanca to see her in a casting. He was 20 years older than her and asked for marriage shortly after leaving, but Blanca rejected it: “He was looking for a wife, a woman with whom to have children and who was at home and I wanted. Villa’s refusal shattered Torrebruno’s heart: “It happened very badly because he wanted to settle, to have a family. He did not take it well to the point of wanting to commit a barbarity, thank God he did not get it,”. And has revealed: “He took pills. I went to his house and found him lying on the floor. I said you can’t make me that blackmail or attempt against your life.”

After that, they managed to spend a page and maintain a beautiful friendship. He had other girlfriends, but never achieved his dream of forming a family: “He had a relationship with a Bilbao girl named María Jesús and did not marry her for her sister. He had many brides, left no puppet with her head.”

Torrebruno departed from the spotlights due to health problems. The artist underwent a heart operation who gave him a few more years of life when there were hardly any hope, but finally died in 1988 of a heart failure. “They loaded it,” says Blanca. “He gave him a heart attack, he asked to call his doctor, but they didn’t find him.”