The images of Concha Velasco in the residence where she lives

Concha Velasco She has been living for a month in a “suite” in a nursing home in Madrid, where she remains “permanently cared for and attended to,” according to her son. Manuel Martinez to EFE.

“In the last two months his health has been deteriorating and he needs medical care 24 hours a day; She is not serious enough to go to a hospital, but we cannot keep her at home either, so the residence was the intermediate solution,” commented the theater director, grateful for the expressions of interest in the state of his mother's health. .

The actress has a degree of dependency which makes it impossible for him to continue leading the same pace of life, “with arthritis, a broken digestive system, a broken liver, and the deterioration typical of age,” Martínez laments.

“Stars also age and we have to understand it as naturally as possible, “There shouldn't be a drama”points out the son, even though he understands that his fans feel the displeasure of Concha Velasco aging as their own.

Now she “enters and leaves, but with her treatments and her rehabilitations on time and well,” says her son, who does not trust in taking his mother home again. “I wish,” he says, “but no, this is life.”

Velasco (Valladolid, 1939) had lymphoma in 2014 that kept her away from the stage for months and her return was conditional on medical surveillance and rest that she herself acknowledged that she was unable to continue.

Even so, his last commitment was the work 'Mary's room', created by her son Manuel, where she played a famous writerIsabel Chacón, who takes the name of her aunt and the surname of her mother, who suffers from agoraphobia and lives secluded in an attic from which she does not move until a fire forces the building to be evacuated.

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A character that the star acknowledged in an interview with Efe that, of all the characters he had played, was the one that had the least to do with her.

On September 15, 2021, with 81 yearspermanently retired from the stage after 144 performances since its premiere on August 19, 2020 at the Victoria Eugenia Theater in Donosti, to later tour 25 Spanish locations.

But today, the artist was able to have a very special visit. The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, wanted to go to her residence to visit the actress. Concha, visibly happy, had a pleasant chat with the politician.