The last years of Amparo Muñoz: "They told her things like 'she's already drunk or 'she's drugged', but she pretended not to hear"

• Lives Amparo Muñoz: the great actress and Miss Universe who fell into heroin and cocaine, was a victim of ill-treatment and died of a brain tumor

• Principles Amparo Muñoz: after the Miss crown she did not want to be a high-class prostitute

After winning

and giving up the crown,

suffered public scrutiny.

She did not want to follow the designs of the organization, she unveiled certain

she vociferated that she had grown bored of being an "object woman" and, although she had a promising career in the cinema,

The malagueña had an innate talent.

However, the doors were closed to her and the media focused on her

and spread rumors about her

.

Of Muñoz, it was even said that

Despite this, what Amparo suffered was a

and, then, there were few who accompanied her... Even so, the beauty queen had

the actor

whom she met when she was 52 and he, between 18 and 19 years old.

"We met through a relative,

when I was about to move to Madrid, to study acting at Cristina Rota's school. The same place where Amparo had studied, that's why I feel like she

me .

But if I needed a guide, she was there. At that time her career was on

and mine was just beginning... And I think

because she saw herself in me and I saw in her what I wanted to be. It was a close friendship, she called me 'my child'. Amparo always wanted to be a mother and even told mine 'don't you mind if we share it?'. For me, it was

because Amparo didn't ask for anything else," Caballero told LOC.

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According to the actor, he met Amparo when she was

of her career.

She no longer made movies, she was sick and the Spanish press did nothing but speculate about her alleged

with well-known faces and former partners of hers.

For this reason, Amparo sought to relax.

She wanted to have

, good conversations, someone to spend good times with and in Angel she found her perfect partner.

A man who wanted to learn from her and who was

without judging anything about what the television said.

"I met the person before the character," he declares.

"I knew that Amparo had been Miss Universe, but

until she told me... And then, when I started to find out things, I already knew what was true and what was a lie. Although I must also recognize that

When we started meeting, Amparo had suffered a stroke, she had problems moving and when we went to the theater, for example, we heard things like

on drugs' .

It made me angry, it made me want to say 'it's not true!', but she pretended not to hear. It was hard for her, but she

because she was not spiteful with anyone, "he explains.

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Moreover , Amparo was

that even though she had little time left to live, she felt that she could give one last effort to Spanish art... That's why she asked Ángel to

A piece that vindicated her as an actress.

And so

the function that this March 4 debuts at the Pavón Theater (in Madrid) and that shows the story of Muñoz, mixed with that of other women, who like Amparo, could have been victims of the machismo of an era.

"It's a role

but it could be her or other girls ahead of her time.

in a time when you couldn't be free," she says.

"For me, Amparo

When she was crowned Miss Universe, they took her out of Malaga, she traveled all over the world and she said 'up to here!', she

And the people, instead of appreciating her force, what they did was crush her until the end of her days. They didn't understand her freedom,

Perhaps it could be understood that she had

certain things, but it wasn't even like that. In her day, when she left the corona, it was proposed to her to

but she said no, because she was not a champion of anything. She was simply free and I would like to think that

this society would understand her more, "he explains.

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And where would Amparo Muñoz be, according to Caballero, if a tumor hadn't taken her away in February 2011?

Probably

"She was a very spiritual person and, for a time, she was closely linked to Buddhism. So, I think her path would have continued a little there. She commented that she

and I think she would have continued with him .

subject of spirituality. She liked everything that distanced her from what could harm her," says Caballero, who also believes that her "love for life" could have led her to be fascinated by this universe that went

"I like to be cautious, respect her memory and not go into personal details, but I can tell you that

She was a person with a lot of vitality, she was a born fighter. For example, at the moment when she she had a stroke, she said things like 'a badly placed vein is not going to be able to beat me' and 'death, son of a bitch, has always come for me, but it won't find me.' that

her and was behind her, but she really couldn't with Amparo", says the interpreter.

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So how were the last days of one of the most beautiful women in the world?

Contrary to what one might believe, they were not extraordinary or full of milestones.

What's more, Ángel -who was one of her closest friends-

"Yes, we lived her last stage together, but not as people think. People want to know if I was there, holding her hand. But it was all much simpler:

because I was in Madrid and she was in Malaga, and When we could, we spent time together. Unfortunately, our last conversation was on the phone... But

he confesses.

In fact, Ángel remembers Amparo every time he goes on stage to direct and star in 'Miss U's Last Dance'.

"I sound crazy, but every night I tell him 'look where I've got you!'

and I am happy to be able to do it, because I think that

that although many thought they knew, they had no idea. Many thought that her life had been shit and she always said no. People I would

take out the dark part and she would reply

I've traveled the world, I've met great characters. Don't stay with the bad!

and this show has part of that ", it ends.

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