Reuven Gugman passed away after a two-decade battle with ALS • His daughter praised him: "Dad you are a true hero, thank you for everything, rest in peace"
White with her father Reuben
Photography:
Or Geffen, Archive
After a two-decade battle with ALS (severe muscular dystrophy), Livna Gugman's father (known as Glowing Brick) has passed away, Gogman updated her 12.2 thousand followers today (Friday) on Instagram. "Dad, thank you for everything" .
"Blessed be the Dayan of Truth," Gugman opened the post dedicated to her father.
"Dad, 21 years you are a hero and a true warrior. 21 years you could not talk, you could not drink, you could not eat, you could not tell what was on your heart, you suffered quietly with yourself.
"Dad now you are no longer suffering. Rest in peace. Dad thank you for everything," she concluded the moving obituary for her father.
Luminous brick - a moment after leaving the house // Archive
Gugman, 37, took part in the fifth season of "Big Brother" and was one of the standout contestants of the season.
She came in second after losing to Tehonia Rubel.
"A parent should love his children as they are"
Her father, Reuben who was 66 at the time of his death and suffered for more than two decades from a severe degenerative disease that fascinated him to his bed, was mentioned more than once on the show, and came out in defense of his daughter when she was verbally assaulted by season participant Roni Miley.
Hours before the dismissal, Gugman's father posted an excited appeal on the net that garnered tens of thousands of likes and thousands of shares in which he came out in defense of his daughter: "I am the father of her son, her glowing big brother, I have had muscular dystrophy for 15 years. "These, I write with great pain through the eyes and not through the hands, with the help of a special thought program that helps me communicate. I am physically disabled, paralyzed all over my body, but yesterday I learned that the mental disability of Gili and Roni Miley is much worse," he wrote.
"When you are a father, you bring children into the world and educate them to the values of respect and acceptance of the other. Seeing Roni and Gili Miley, father and son, full of hatred, prejudice and racism, in the evening on the TV screen, does no good. Seeing them pounce on my daughter, try To hurt her in places they think will hurt her the most, it hurts my heart. Not only because she is my daughter, but because it hurts Israeli society. Israeli society progresses, step at a time, towards a tolerant society and accepts the different. The one that can contain the Ethiopian, "Russian, Eritrean, gay, lesbian or any other definition whatsoever," he added.
"I believe a parent should love his child as he is, not as he is not. As a proud father, I always knew I was supposed to provide safety nets for homes and tell her, as long as you do not hurt yourself or others, whatever you do will be acceptable to me. I still love you always No matter what!".
