TV Concha Velasco: four impossible loves, several bankruptcies and her fight against cancer
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In recent years, Concha Velasco (82) has been putting plasters on all those wounds that still oozed beyond the skin.
Because this one, she is carnal.
What she has tried to do is preserve the soul and the thought in which some of the facets of that rough diamond found in the Valladolid mine converge, where artistic veins of the caliber of Zorrilla and Delibes were once extracted.
And also Bourbons, that of Philip II.
That
little girl from the Red Cross
boosted to national popularity learned that everything flows, everything changes, nothing remains.
Except her.
Spanish cultural heritage,
Conchita made use of the color palette of her eternal smile to disguise that grayish age eager for prefabricated dreams.
There was no party in which La chica ye-ye
was not danced
.
A
song composed by Augusto Algueró
that Velasco turned into an anthem of
savoir faire
thanks to
Histories of television
(1965) that disheveled a threadbare society, directing it towards modernity.
If Elizabeth Taylor was America's girlfriend,
in Spain we had Concha Velasco.
It's been seven decades fulfilling the dream of "mom, I want to be an artist" because although Concha has retired from the mundane,
she still remains in the collective memory
in which there is no first, second or third age.
There reigns immortality.
However, reality cannot be sugar-coated.
Since the beginning of February, the actress has been in the Santa Matilde residence in the Madrid neighborhood of Cuatro Caminos.
His first-born, Manuel Martínez Velasco (45), is honest with LOC: "After all this time
the balance is more positive every day because he entered very delicate.
It was a decision that we all made. He
walks better
and better and although
the digestive system It is very deteriorated
, at least the stomach is less swollen".
A
galloping osteoarthritis
is largely to blame.
And different anomalies have been attached to it in a short time, such as
a lymphoma, a hernia operation, several falls
... "The other day while we were recording
Cine de barrio
I went to say hello to a director and I slipped and hit my head" , confessed in Barcelona during the promotion of the play
Reina Juana
.
Her frailty was tangible.
To a small group of journalists, among whom was the veteran society columnist
Josep Sandoval
, he showed his hands so that we could see the ravages caused by rheumatic disease.
And whoever writes these lines was a witness in 2004 in his dressing room at the Borràs theater in Barcelona
how she pricked herself
so that the pain would not paralyze her during the performance of
Inés unbuttoned
with her adored
Paco Valladares and Nati Mistral
, who suffered a small identity usurpation when some unsuspecting person wrote Nati Abascal on the promotional poster.
Criticism about the situation in which the protagonist of
Esquilache
(1989) finds herself has rained torrentially, eclipsing the storm of cold and rain that has adorned the capital for a few days.
No one in Spain would have believed that something like this could happen.
But it has happened.
Manuel reiterates that "in recent months his health has been deteriorating until
he has become a dependent person
" and adds: "He lived with me and my brother Paco, but
there came a time when we could not adequately meet his needs
. "
In the residence he is comfortable.
But certain voices say the opposite.
Manuel sentences: "But if you
have a suite of almost sixty square meters
decorated with some of your personal belongings, you
have three caregivers
who take turns, medical attention, today I took you to the hairdresser, I managed the
schedule of visits
for this late, as with her almost always...".
Although the names of the people who come to see her have not been disclosed, LOC has learned from very good sources that
Ana Belén
(70) is among them.
Both are close friends
since they have known each other practically since the singer made her film debut alongside Fernando Rey in
Zampo y yo
(1966).
Concha can leave the residence whenever she wants, her friends take her out for a drink or a walk in the park and on weekends she usually goes to the movies and the theater, as happened last Sunday when she saw
A Chorus Line
invited by Manuel Bandera ( 61).
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After announcing her theatrical retirement at the Calderón in Valladolid at the beginning of September last year, the performer definitively hung up her robes at the Bretón de Logroño, thus closing
María's room
, which her son Manuel wrote especially for her.
Much has been speculated about her retirement, it was made clear that she was getting off the stage, but there were little things that remained in the air.
Manuel points out and emphasizes that
"the withdrawal is total
because in terms of acting quality it is also very difficult for him to do something of fiction because
his physical faculties are diminished
and
there is no shame in saying so
. Physically he is not well.
I do not want that my mother dies like Molière on stage
. If she feels like it and she feels good, she will do some little things on television, such as the beautiful tribute that Jota Abril has done for Telemadrid".
Concha
no longer gets up at five or six in the morning to study.
He usually does it around nine.
And when he takes a run, in a matter of handling the Ipad, no one beats him.
"She usually tells stories and anecdotes to her companions but, above all, to her caregivers. Charo knows her background and
they have a lot of fun watching her movies
and other little things that my mother teaches her," says the eldest son of the interpreter and presenter who has just publish his first novel,
Things You Shouldn't Do the Night Before You Get Married
.
Concha Velasco and Paco Marsó.GTRES
After several relationships, Concha believed that she had found stability with the actor Paco Marsó, with whom she was married from 1977 to 2005 and
they had a son, Paco
(42).
Her love of theater and musicals led to their
downfall
.
Her husband worked as a producer.
With
Carmen, Carmen
(1988) they obtained profits that they invested in
La Truhana
(1992), which caused them a
debt of 130 million pesetas
(780,000 euros) that worsened with the macro-production
Hello, Dolly!
(2001), which
forced them to sell their
431 square meter chalet in La Moraleja in 2002 on a plot of 2,500 due to the
Non-payment of the mortgage of 360,000 euros and a debt with the Treasury of almost 140,000 euros.
Concha Velasco in an image from the 60s.GTRES
Despite her regrets, Concha continued with a blindfold on her eyes.
Marsó had not been a saint.
He had been unfaithful to her, he went on a spree, he spent a fortune in the casinos...
But Concha was still by his side.
Until she said enough.
The divorce came in 2010.
However, something was cooking in the environment.
The economic problems were far from disappearing.
She has sold personal belongings,
pawned her jewelry in the Monte de Piedad
, rescued 50,000 euros from the pension plan in 2012 so as not to lose her apartment and in 2019 she got rid of this central property.
Be that as it may, she acknowledged with her usual way of speaking that she had saved 6,000 euros so that her children would not have to pay for the funeral.
Gone are the days when she began working with
Manolo Caracol and Celia Gámez
, who propelled her to become a star who has lit up stages and any size screen.
Like Elizabeth Taylor, she has also known how to rise from her ashes.
the girl who had it all
dropdown
His demiurge was Luis Escobar, the tender VII Marquis of the Marismas del Guadalquivir, as well as a playwright and actor, he taught him to dress, behave and know how to study.
your most intimate
Tony Leblanc also contributed his grain of sand.
They made eleven films together (
The Red Cross Girls, Valentine
's
Day
,
TV Stories
) and when he passed away in 2012, he confessed: "I owe everything I am to Tony."
Memorable was the final scene of those stories with the ye-ye girl rhythm.
His other great on-screen love was
Manolo Escobar
, with whom he worked five times.
In private he drank the loves of
Enrique Ortega
(son of Manolo Caracol), of the actor
Juan Diego
and the director of photography Fernando Arribas, about whom he revealed last year that he was Manuel's biological father.
At work, he has done everything many times at once.
Hence, he has been recognized with the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts and Merit at Work, the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise or the Goya and the Max of honor.
For the experts, her great role was to give life to a saint in the series
Teresa de Jesús
(1984).
The actress, like her children, is Catholic.
Concha goes to the residence's chapel.
There she makes some of the ecclesiastic's thoughts her own: "Let nothing traumatize you, let nothing disturb you, everything passes, only God is enough."
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