• Obituary: Muere Azucena Hernández, uncovering actress and 33-year-old victim of tetraplegia
  • The last interview. "I did theater, I shot with Pajares ... but after the accident I wanted to die"

The only time I saw Azucena Hernández (Sevilla 1960) was in 2016 at the Center for the Care of People with Physical Disabilities in Guadalajara, where Antonio Heredia and I had gone to report for a series dedicated to the girls of the uncover 40 years then.

For journalists (and people) away from the tragedy, anguish was forced. Hernandez had done it all in the uncovering - Stela's erotic vacations , The consensus , Bacchanal live , When Almanzor lost the drum , The masked erotic , The manga's cipote , Chronicle of the bromide ... - but just when he began to touching with his fingers the serious fame - Enrique IV de Pirandello in the theater - lost control of his little little Peugeot on a rainy night. The next day, he woke up in La Paz with his body paralyzed from the waist down .

The Spaniards have always been fond of a good tragedy and during the first months after the accident the media turned to the actress. "A lot of my colleagues came to see me. Even Mayor Tierno Galván - do you remember what he said? 'The one who is not placed to be placed' - sent me a gift."

It took Azucena almost a year to return home. Then ( alone, very solid ) was when he realized his reality. "From my harsh reality. I couldn't move and that was too much for my mother and my brother. I felt a burden." Gradually, the visits were spaced. " The only one who kept coming to see me was Andrés Pajares . As always I had to play his girlfriend! I have not seen him here for a long time because he is now quite ill," he recalled.

The actress fell into a deep depression . Some time later he would give an interview to Iñaki Gabilondo that was recorded in the memory of thousands of people. It was the first allegation in favor of euthanasia that was made on television. "I just wanted to die. I felt that there could be no one more unfortunate than me in the world ... Until I arrived here, in Guadalajara."

That day, while we were chatting in Guadalajara, we passed other inmates. Most seemed in their own world, absent, immersed in their own pain, the daily drama of which he is not in good health, but suddenly he was still hearing a "beautiful" for Azucena.

And now what do you think of euthanasia? I asked. At that time, despite that impact that for a young person like me then was and without problems it was such a scenario, he snapped at me. "Look ... Now my desire has been taken away ."

I was about to hatch the metoomania . The question was forced. "At 17 I was elected Miss Catalonia and I immediately signed a contract to make three films. I went to live in Madrid. I stayed at my manager's house, who was a woman. Then my girlfriend would come with me ... Until my mother came to live with us! A producer asked me and you understand me in exchange for making a movie. I started to cry and my parents decided that I could not be alone. " I couldn't help asking for more details of that episode. "I had such a good time at that time ... We were going to dance. And I liked working so much." That really was the reality host.

Some months later, when we published the report in this newspaper, Azucena phoned me in case I wanted to write a biography with her . I was postponing, cowardly, so as not to face Guadalajara again. But even so, even if we want to avoid it, we will all return there, to that end that we refuse. The lesson is always the same. We must remember the people who did not have dessert in the Titanic and enjoy every moment, every little success (although Azucena was huge) as if it were a milestone. The next day we can be nothing. Or be Azucena Hernández in Guadalajara , which was already being too much. That day impressed me much more than in any Enrique IV of Pirandello. This afternoon I learned that he has died. I admire his family a lot because, contrary to what Becquer said, you have to admire who does not leave the living alone.

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