Eugenio was one of the most prestigious comedians in the history of Catalonia and all of Spain. His particular tone of voice, the cigarette always in his mouth and the famous “You know what diu…” completely characterized his style and gave him an aura beyond human understanding. Unfortunately, his life gradually faded away, affected by depression and excess fame, before suffering a fatal heart attack in 2001.
23 years have passed since that event, and during the last few days Y Now Sonsoles has been remembering the comedian thanks to the closest people in his life. Last week it was his second wife, Conchita Ruiz, who attended the evening show presented by Sonsoles Ónega, while on this Monday afternoon his son, Gerard Jofra, attended, who highlighted multiple notable events that occurred during his life. of the.
One of the main aspects that the comedian also highlighted was the relationship he had with his eventual widow, Isabel Soto. In his own words, Soto’s arrival completely destabilized the family, to the point of saying that he kicked them all out of the house. “It’s just that we were annoying,” he confessed, contrasting the opinion of his brother Dani Galiot about the lack of accessibility to his father. A situation that caused Eugenio to fear loneliness.
Despite this, the Catalan had been in bad shape on a psychological level for some time. Jofra remembers a groundbreaking conversation she had with him in the hospital, when she went to visit him after the birth of her daughter. During that talk, Eugenio confessed that he wanted to die, after being immersed in a deep depression for a long time and having had his first heart attack. The next day, he died at Oliver’s restaurant.
Beyond his father’s departure, Gerard was also able to look back at his particular lifestyle, which he had to endure when he was younger. Being close to an artist on stage did not facilitate a childhood within the usual average: “I have experienced things that probably were not relevant due to my age, but over the years it is appreciated.” Jofra also remembered with pain the death of her mother Conchita Alcaide, an event that he defined as “the worst thing that can happen to a child.”
It was not the only time that Jofra highlighted the figure of his parents before the media. During a TikTok Contra de La Vanguardia, he assured that Alcaide was the pillar that praised Eugenio’s career, in addition to revealing the particular locations he had to deal with: “My parents performed at night, I was a baby and they planted me on the bar from the pub, in a cuckoo, and I saw bottles of alcohol and tobacco smoke.”
