A year ago, Máximo Huerta decided to put his professional life aside to focus on caring for his mother, Clara. The television presenter left the small screen and moved to the small town where her mother lives to attend to her different needs, since she needs someone to accompany her daily.
At that time, Huerta decided to run a small bookstore in the municipality, a place that inspired him to write part of his new novel: Paris woke up late. After a few months of disconnection, the writer has resumed contact with the media and has opened up in an interview for Semana magazine.
In this interview for the aforementioned media, Huerta appears happy and happy to be able to accompany his mother in such a delicate process, as well as to return to Buñol (the town where he grew up) and to run a bookstore that bears the name. of his dog: Doña Leo.
For the Valencian, writing the novel he is promoting has been ‘traveling to another place’, a refuge in which he can forget the pain he was suffering at home. It should be noted that, although he has not named the disease as such, Máximo Huerta’s statements suggest that his mother suffers from Alzheimer’s or dementia.
”These days he is again not knowing if I am his son, his brother, his father… His head is ”evaporating” and these are being very complicated days,” the presenter explains sadly while pointing out that they have just passed through a better stage and that, now that he is out of town to promote the novel, his mother calls him many times.
In the writing he also confesses that, although he comes and goes as much as he can to the town, his head is always there and that he keeps an eye on the woman through a camera that he put on her: ”As if he were a little Big Brother ”.
With the report he has done for the magazine specialized in journalism of the heart and social chronicle, Huerta wanted to make it clear that taking care of his mother is not a sacrifice, since it makes him happy while collecting moments with her.
The communicator has dedicated the book with which he intends to entertain and enchant readers from all over the world to his mother, but he has also decided to name his ex-partner, Juan Castillo, in the dedication: ”We must be grateful for the times in which one has been happy.”
