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In mid-May, Pablo Alarcon He had to be admitted to the Dr. Enrique Tornú General Acute Hospital, in the city of Buenos Aires, due to pneumonia. Although different versions indicated that he had recovered and had received a medical discharge, the actor surprised the people who follow him on his social networks this Monday with a unique message in which he gives an account of his current state of health. .
The clip that the protagonist of Heaven gift uploaded to his Instagram account begins with a still photo in which he is seen on the beach, full of tattoos. In reality, when the video begins you can see that it is a doctored image and that he is actually hospitalized. Without losing his sense of humor and looking at the camera, the actor reported: “Friends of Instagram, be a little patient with me. I have been hospitalized for 15 days, here at the iMac, and they treat me wonderfully well.”
And continued: “I’m going to be unable to communicate with you for a while longer, for many reasons. I hope to hear you, see you and answer you one by one, or by the dozen. I think it costs less per dozen. Blessings and good health to all.”
His message received hundreds of responses with wishes for a speedy recovery, some of them from celebrities who worked alongside him, such as Cristina Alberó, Antonio Grimau, Melania Lenoir, Gustavo Conti, Juan Alberto Mateyko, Andrea Estévez and Aníbal Pachano. Georgina Barbarossa, meanwhile, wanted to know what was happening to her and how she could help him.
The thing is that not even in the clip and in the brief text that accompanies the images, does Alarcón give details about What is the reason for the hospitalization? Among the responses that Barbarossa’s message received, a user explains that “He has bilateral pneumonia, waiting for the antibiotics to take effect.”. If so, the picture is similar to the one that led to his hospitalization in the middle of last month.
At that time, the 77-year-old actor was hospitalized in the Tornú Hospital for pneumonia. At that time, when consulted by THE NATIONAlarcon He noted that he was recovering and was waiting to be discharged. “Here I am, it was a very hard week. Tomorrow I leave Tornú and start my life again little by little.”
This medium also communicated at that time with his ex-wife, Claribel Medina, who gave details of the hospitalization. “Pablo is suffering from a lung infection, bilateral pneumonia. The doctors, for the moment, prohibit him from speaking so that he can rest and his breathing can stabilize. He is on antibiotics, very well cared for by the hospital staff,” confirmed the mother of Antonella and María Agostina, the result of the relationship between the two.
In the middle of last year, his name was in the news again. Although it came from being part of the series BarrabravaPrime Video and doing theater in Mar del Plata with broken by love, His critical economic situation made him decide to perform cap theater in the squares. A video about one of those performances went viral on social networks and their situation became news. “It is a moment in my life when I have to do this, perhaps giving back to society in some way. Well, rather, I don’t owe anything to anyone, the corrupt governments owe me, the thieves who left and took everything,” she told on that occasion to THE NATION.
During that same talk he talked about his financial situation. “I am retired, I earn the minimum, my daughters help me and I am a hustler. As long as I can stand, they are not going to turn me over,” said the interpreter who was part of the successful television series. High comedy and soap operas like Rose from afar, Heaven gift and little women, who after more than five decades of experience turned the helm and, during the pandemic, was encouraged to produce a personal cooking and music show.
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The chosen text that he presented with Augusto Gavilán, his music teacher, was a fragment of the book Voluntary servitude speech, written in 1548 by the French philosopher Etienne de La Boétie, who reflects on corruption. Alarcón had made it a habit to leave his house with his instruments, set up a minimal stage, put on some tights and thermal shirts that one of his daughters had given him and perform on Sunday afternoons in Plaza Francia, in front of the Church of Pilar and to Cultural Recoleta.
“I am a worker. Nothing bothers me. They are going to turn me over the day they bury me. “I am a fighter,” he noted. At the same time he insisted: “I don’t need to work anymore, that’s the reality. “What I need is to earn money to live,” he admitted on another occasion. I do theater in a square because I have dignity. I do not have shame. I didn’t smoke the money in nonsense, the country smoked it. On 1050, the corralito, the dollar. All. “It caught me off guard, personal things happened to me, but I’m not the only one.”
But there was a time when he did encounter an economic situation that worked in his favor. “It must have been in ’69, with Alejandro Doria’s play, Plaza Suite. The day I went to eat at Pippo restaurant and, instead of ordering noodles with tuco, I ordered a chorizo steak, I realized that I could now live better. And, later, with my first big salary, I bought a Citroën 2CV,” she once recalled.
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