Gustavo Ángel, actor with outstanding participation in multiple Colombian television productions, revealed that he had gone through critical moments due to severe kidney complications that required two operations.
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The events occurred during the filming of the novel ‘So close and so far‘, approximately between 1998 and 1999. At that time, Ángel was experiencing a period of high workload, and it was precisely during this period when problems with his kidneys began to appear.
Actor Gustavo Ángel.
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The operations he had to go through
Due to his serious deterioration in health, and despite his desire to remain active in his work life without interruptions, The actor was forced to undergo surgery to remove a kidney.
The Colombian director María Antonieta Navia, better known as Toni Navia was the one who insisted that Ángel undergo this procedureeven stopping the recording of the novel they were working on.
The procedure was of such magnitude that Álvaro Castillo, director, actor and friend of Gustavo Ángel, said that after his partner’s operation he was impressed and saw the stitches, going so far as to ask: ““How is it possible that that man is walking?”.
The actor’s health problems seemed to have been resolved; However, years later, while he was at a film festival in Mexico and He went out to exercise and when he arrived at the hotel, he started bleeding.
So he returned to Colombia and underwent another surgical procedureThanks to this, the kidney that I still had can function normally again.
The ‘miracle’ that saved the actor
Before performing his last intervention, while he was still in Mexico, Ángel He dressed the Virgin of Guadalupe and asked her for help in the operation that was underway.
“Help me prepare for what’s coming, having my kidney removed.”
Upon returning to Bogotá and receiving the news that his kidney had a chance of fully recovering, The actor attributed this improvement in his health to the prayer he had made in Mexico City to the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Even close friends like Lucho Velasco, who knew very well Gustavo Ángel’s difficult health situation, assure that the ‘miracle’ occurred because he entrusted himself to the Virgin.
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