Carmen Sevilla passed away last Tuesday after suffering from Alzheimer’s during the last thirteen years of her life and the media have turned to her farewell. Specifically, the television programs paid a special tribute talking about the figure of the actress, the “girlfriend of Spain” so loved by all viewers.
However, his funeral will be held in the strictest privacy, as reported by his son Augusto Algueró, something with which his staunchest friends do not agree. Neither are some very critical journalists, such as Josemi Rodríguez-Sieiro, who this Wednesday in Y ahora Sonsoles lashed out harshly against the offspring for the decision to prevent a public tribute from his mother.
The last goodbye to Carmen Sevilla has been in the strictest privacy, the same in which she has lived her illness, Alzheimer’s. There has not even been a funeral chapel, or wreaths or anyone to cry for her when she is still present in the funeral home. This is how her son Augusto Algueró decided.
The only people who were present were Florentino Fernández, the singer’s driver for twenty years, as well as her lawyer, Marcos García Montes. And both wanted to speak this Wednesday for the Sonsoles Ónega program on Antena 3 Television.
“She would have liked the people, who loved her to death, to have said goodbye to her,” said the lawyer. An opinion also shared by the driver: “Carmen loved flowers, and there are no bouquets around here.”
However, that discretion that Algueró displayed to keep everything that surrounded his mother in absolute secrecy, has not sat well with a certain journalistic sector. In fact, one of the collaborators of Y ahora Sonsoles, the popular heart journalist Josemi Rodríguez-Sieiro was one of the most critical of Carmen Sevilla’s son.
“It seems very good to me that the will of the son is respected in that, during the time that [Carmen Sevilla, his mother] has been ill, he has not allowed or restricted all visits. It seems phenomenal to me ”, she began by saying.
However, and here came the harsh reproach to Algueró, Josemi released a: “Now, in the current situation, that he has not had a tribute from the city of Madrid, which basically represents all of Spain, I find it absolutely intolerable . It looks awful to me.”
To which Sonsoles Ónega wanted to know who was to blame for this situation: the authorities or the family, in this case the actress’s son. “To the son”, Josemi made clear. “The son had to have realized that she was her mother and that she protected everything. But by the time her mother dies, that coffin should have been taken to the Plaza de Colón, as has happened with others, for example, or to a theater, and people have paid the last tribute to Carmen Sevilla,” he said. .
And here Josemi explained the reasons for this necessary public tribute to the figure of the presenter: “First, because she deserved it; second, because the Spanish people have felt it”. Such was the journalist’s indignation at the decision taken by Algueró, that he censured his attitude: “It seems to me truly unpresentable behavior.”
