The actress Silvia Pinal during an interview in Mexico City, in 2015.Sáshenka Gutiérrez (EFE)
Mexican actress Silvia Pinal, 90, has been discharged from Mexico City after spending a week hospitalized for health complications.
After being stabilized by a cardiac arrhythmia, hospital workers performed a covid-19 screening test that came back positive.
In a preventive way, the artist has remained hospitalized for several days for observation and has been taken this Wednesday by ambulance to her home, where her recovery will finish.
Pinal's family has declared to the local press that the actress's state of health is not serious and that she has "good clinical condition." His son, Luis Enrique Guzmán, said that after being treated for the virus and a urinary tract infection, Pinal is recovering favorably. For her part, her eldest daughter, Sylvia Pasquel, has assured that her mother "is doing well and stronger than ever," through a statement posted on her social networks. Pinal has, as reported by his family, the complete vaccination schedule against SARS-CoV-2 and a booster dose.
The last public appearance of the actress was in October, when she was honored for her more than 70 years of experience. The interpreter worked throughout her career with Pedro Infante, Germán Valdés
Tin tan
, Gabriel Figueroa and Emilio
El Indio
Fernández, among many others. But his life — and the direction of Mexican cinema — changed forever when he met Luis Buñuel. From that encounter the film
Viridiana
(1961) was born
,
one of Buñuel's greatest works, which gave Ibero-American cinematography its first golden palm at a Cannes Festival. “I am the only one who made three films with Buñuel. Neither Catherine Deneuve nor Jeanne Moreau, nor anyone else ”, said the actress, who also worked with the Spanish filmmaker on
The exterminating angel
and
Simon of the desert,
in an interview with EL PAÍS in 2016.
Silvia Pinal is part of a powerful clan of artists and entertainers in Mexico.
The latest scandal that plagued the dynasty happened this year after the statements of Frida Sofía, the interpreter's granddaughter.
The young woman accused her grandfather, Enrique Guzmán, of abusing her when she was five years old.
In the confession, Frida Sofía also spoke of Guzmán's mistreatment of his ex-wife, the iconic Pinal, and unleashed a trail of cross accusations among family members.
The 90-year-old diva then broke her silence.
“I am not indifferent to what happens within my family bosom.
Frida, your grandmother loves you intensely.
We need both, "wrote Pinal.
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