Actor Arturo Vázquez, son of the legendary Alberto Vázquez, has told details of his relationship with his father and the singer’s eccentricities when he was at the peak of his fame. The interpreter had his life resolved to the point of affording himself luxuries for an idol of his level at that time. For example, acquiring the latest model car, property and fine items, and having a pet lion.
“My dad’s house smelled like money. I gave the name to that aroma. One of those houses that when you enter it seems like someone is smoking a pipe or cigar. His car was a big car and his house was great,” Arturo tells Miguel Garza in the program At night with friends.
Furthermore, he was not satisfied with a dog or a cat, wanted something less domestic and more original in his home.Virgilio had a lion at home, I don’t know how many years it lasted. He was loose. For me to enter his house I had to guard the lion, because if not, he wouldn’t enter. I was young. “My dad was exotic.”
The feline was called Virgil, just like the Roman poet. Arturo tells it naturally, as if it were something common for a star of the caliber of his father.
The unexpected arrival of a child and their fractured relationship
Arturo was born in 1964 from the relationship between Isela Vega and Alberto Vázquez. It was a romance that ended on bad terms with no option to establish a healthy coexistence for the common good. Despite the years, The actress and the singer did not remedy the animosity that arose after their separation.
It is Alberto Vázquez who has spoken on the subject. According to his version, the sex symbols of Mexican cinema had a lot of anger for what she interpreted as infidelity. “I started hanging out with Isela, she got angry with me because I went to have coffee with a girl. “She left pregnant and I didn’t know where Arturo was born,” he told Gustavo Adolfo Infante for the program In company of… in 2012.
According to your side of the story, Vega’s sudden departure occurred without telling him that she was pregnant. He found out about this months later when he had started a new relationship with María del Rosario Hoyos, his wife until she died in 2003. By chance he found out that he had had a son with the actress.
“One day a guy comes and tells me ‘I congratulate you’. I was in my car in front of my house. I asked him why. ‘Because you have a son. His name is Arturo and he is on such and such a street as Isela.’ (.. .) I went, I see the baby, I see Isela and we were half happy to fix things. Anyway, he left again.”
Vega was not pleased to discover that the father of her son was reinventing his life with another woman, which is why she distanced herself so that she could get closer to Arturo. The singer had no chance to approach the child due to the barriers that his ex-partner established to prevent contact between them. The situation caused Mr. Alberto pain because he lost the joy of enjoying his childhood.
“She took away a very nice thing from me, which was living with my son. She didn’t even let me see him. She was tremendous. She left him with a secretary instead of leaving him with me, she never let me see him, she turned him against me. Arturo lived more with (Jorge ) Luke, it was his stepfather.”
Arturo’s childhood was spent without being able to be with his father due to his mother’s decision. The relationship between the Vázquez family did not exist in the early years, It was broken before birth. To make up for lost time they had to wait until Arturo’s adolescence and youth.
As a son, he established close communication with his father since he was already established in the world of music.
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