Isabel Pedrejon
Updated Tuesday, February 13, 2024-20:14
Television The success of Albert Espinosa's time machine: "All the guests say they will not cry, and in the end they do"
Literature Albert Espinosa: "I estimate that I have 12 years to live. It wouldn't be bad"
His adolescence was cut short
when he was 14 years old.
Albert Espinosa
(53) was a smiling boy and a good student who was diagnosed with osteocharsoma, a type of
bone cancer so malignant
that doctors gave him a 3% chance of survival. Nobody thought that he would turn 17 and they advised him to go to an island to live out
his last month of life.
However, he had to
face two
more cancers during a decade that took away a lung, a leg and half a liver. She changed hospitals up to ten times. But
he managed to defeat death.
In an interview with EL MUNDO carried out in 2023, he confessed that "I estimate that
I have 12 years to live.
It wouldn't be bad."
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Much later, one of the doctors told him
that
he would not live to be 50,
so Albert took a break between 47 and 50 to enjoy life, rest
"and prepare to die,
but I haven't died." , also commented in EL MUNDO.
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After that nightmare he experienced as a teenager that he still remembers with a smile
, he resumed his studies,
graduated in Industrial Engineering and immersed himself in writing. The disease had been a great source of inspiration because her first play was
Los Pelones
(1995), which would serve as the seed for the film
Planta 4ª
(2003), directed by Antonio Mercero and starring Juan José Ballesta (36). . On television, her biggest success has been
Red Bracelets
(2010), which won the Ondas Award and the International Emmy Kids Award.
"I will not have children because my type of cancer is inherited in 99% of cases"
In Albert's life,
friends and family
have had a fundamental specific weight. They have given him strength
to move forward,
although that has not caused him to feel
terribly alone at specific times.
He often states that the worst thing about being sick is not the pain, but the loneliness. When he feels a little low, he turns to
music to forget his sorrows
or takes refuge in a good read like
Tuesdays with My Old Teacher
by Mitch Albom, which he has reread countless times. We must not forget
Menorca
, the island where he sought refuge when he was first told that he was going to the other world and which since then
he visits every summer
because it is his oasis of peace.
It is unknown if he has a partner because he has always been
secretive regarding his private life,
but what is clear is that he has no children. In the program
Al cotxe!
from TV3 he made it clear that "I will not have children because my type of cancer is inherited in 99% of cases."
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Tonight Albert goes with Máximo Huerta to
El Hormiguero
to present the second season of
The Road to Home
(La Sexta) where six celebrities walk the path they took every day to get home from school.