On December 13, 2021, he left us forever Veronica Forqué. The actress took her own life at the age of 66 and her death opened an important debate on mental health. She left her only daughter alive, Maria Iborra (32), who this gray Tuesday has remembered his mother on social networks.
The two were very close, not only because of the natural bond that exists between a mother and a daughter, but also because they shared the same passion for the world of entertainment and cinema. Iborra, DJ and show girl, is artistically known as Virgin Mary and she has more than 200,000 followers on Instagram, where she shares extravagant publications, typical of the art that she offers.
Maria has gone up to stories on Instagram three publications in her memory: a video that reviews her mother’s career, another compilation about her and, finally, the post that the also actress has posted Silvia Abascal. The latter has rescued a phrase that was very significant for the protagonist of Reading: “Like a bird on the wire. I have tried in my way to be free” (Like a bird on the wire. I have tried in my way to be free), belonging to a theme by Leonard Cohen.
Forqué, the actress with the most Goya awards together with Carmen Maura, took his own life in his Madrid home after years of suffering from depression. In different programs and interviews, she spoke of her mental health problems and the full stop that the divorce from her daughter’s father, the film director, meant in her life. Manuel Iborra. They married in 1984 and separated three decades later. Other personal setbacks also diminished the mood of the late actress.
“I had a horrible depression in 2014 when I realized that I had stopped loving the love of my life. I overcame it with medication and psychoanalysis, but then my brother (Álvaro Forqué) died and it was another blow. And at the age of four, In 2018, my mother (Carmen Vázquez Vigo) passed away,” he declared in 2020.
In recent years, Forqué has not stopped working. Among other projects, he participated in The one that is coming o in Love is forever. She also starred Christmas days on Netflix and made several movies like get out of the closet, 1000 km from Christmas o Mirror, mirror. However, the most commented was sor participation in Masterchef Celebritya program that received strong criticism for exposing, on public television, a person with mental health problems.