Raquel Welch, the sex symbol who suffered from Alzheimer’s when she died

The death certificate of Raquel Welch has revealed that the legendary actress died at the age of 82 of cardiac arrest, but that she had already been battling years of unrevealed battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Her newly released death certificate reveals her suffering in the last years of her life.

The American actress and international sex symbol passed away in Los Angeles on February 15, after what was described at the time as “a brief illness,” as described by her long-term business manager, Steve Sauer, at that moment. As he has published TMZhis death certificate leaves in writing the disease that the Hollywood star’s environment wanted to keep secret.

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The degenerative condition Alzheimer’s, for which there is no cure, is caused by a brain disorder that slowly destroys a patient’s cognitive abilities and ability to carry out even the most basic tasks.

The secret about this condition of a universal sexual symbol can be understood from the respect for his figure. Raquel became internationally famous for her work and her impressive physique. She began in 1966 with her intervention in fantastic trip and her stunning bikini appearance in One million years before Christ, when she had already been the mother of two children, Damon Welch And your daughter Tahnee Welch, who is also an actress.

Both are sons of her first husband, James Welchwhom she married at nineteen and divorced in 1965. She later married, in 1967, her manager Patrick Curtisfrom whom he divorced in 1972. The third marriage was with Andrew Weinfeld in 1980 and divorced ten years later. She had a fourth marriage with Richard Palmer in 1990, at the age of fifty, and separated from him in 2011.

In 1968, Welch had an extramarital affair with the Spanish actor Sancho Grace during the filming in Spain of the western film 100 Rifleswork in which he had time to have another romance with another Spanish actor, Aldo Sambrell.

Her career spanned more than 50 years starring in more than 30 films and 50 television series with various appearances, she won a Golden Globe for her role as Constance de Bonacieux in the 1974 remake of The Three Musketeers.