On July 10, 2013, Concha García-Campoy died at the Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe in Valencia due to acute liver failure due to the leukemia she suffered from. The journalist had announced two years before that she suffered from the disease, explaining that she withdrew from her work to treat herself and recover. After several treatments, unfortunately it was not possible.
At that time, his family was plunged into the deepest pain. Especially her son, Lorenzo, the result of her marriage to the sociologist Lorenzo Díaz Sánchez. Lorenzo, who next August will become a father for the first time with his wife, Paloma de la Hoz, wanted to pay tribute to his mother with an emotional letter on the date that marks 10 years since his death.
“How do you get over the death of a mother? Is it possible?” asks the son of the beloved journalist in his reflection, which he shared with Vanitatis in the newspaper El Confidencial. Lorenzo Díaz remembers how Gonzalo Miró, who also went through a similar situation after the loss of his mother, warned him not to. “With the death of a mother you live the rest of your days. You can neither overcome nor heal. You learn to live with that emptiness.”
Lorenzo recalls that conversation a decade later, and admits that he can’t do more than “fully subscribe to his words.” Even so, he wants to add that “you can be very happy despite the fact that life snatches away your main pillar so prematurely.”
The son of Concha García-Campoy leaves that fateful July 10 aside and goes on to remember so many other July 10s that he lived with her, which he describes as “the best stage of our lives.” A few days in which he enjoyed summer with her mother, vacations, friendships. In which he saw her “deeply happy” and, as her son admits, “that was not something that happened every day.”
Holidays in Eivissa and Formentera, surrounded by friends like Santiago Segura or David Trueba; that made the summer days of the family moments of pure happiness. “Surreal and unforgettable scenes for the family imagination. “I’ve never seen you laugh like that, son,” you told me. You were probably right.”
Some summers that Lorenzo continues to live, now without his mother, but loaded with memories. “I try to create my own on our sites, but it’s complicated,” he admits, but doesn’t give up: “Each year that passes, I savor our memories with more happiness than nostalgia.”
The young man, who has followed in his mother’s footsteps -like his younger sister, Berta-, has been linked to Mediaset for more than a decade, where he works at News. He also shares a profession with his wife, Paloma, who is successful with her podcast Chatting about fashion, in which he interviews different professionals in the sector. In addition, she is co-founder of a platform that is committed to ‘made in Spain’ products, Mondo Market.
