María Valenzuela tells why she almost died from dental neglect

First it was her daughter’s stroke, which the doctors had practically evicted. after herself he had an acute depressive picture and was hospitalized “In a locker” (he says with some humor) over a month. And, during the pandemic, dental neglect almost left her on the brink of death, weighing only 35 kilos. María del Carmen Valenzuela is a bulletproof woman.

And, we see that to verify it, andDestiny (if it is true that such a thing exists) shot him abundant shrapnel.

But she, like that phoenix tattooed on his chest, near the left shoulder, is used to getting up. As often as necessary. Small and thin than necessary, thanks to the unexpected diet assigned by an unscrupulous dentist, Maria goes. And she goes one, two, three and a thousand times more. And she never tires of facing her own destiny.

I always rise from the ashes. I fall and get up, as a character said in a novel by Alberto Migré. I have a strong personality, fear does not paralyze me and The Reaper (Death) can blow my neckbut I always act.

-You saw The Reaper?

-I saw her with my daughter when she had a stroke. The Reaper I was out there all the time. Malena had a one percent chance of life. But I didn’t freeze. The first thing I did was ask for a notebook and a pen to write down everything that happened, minute by minute. She was hospitalized for a pharmacological coma, they did a craniotomy, then he is missing half a bone in his head.

all about my daughter

-Have you prayed? I see so many images of the Virgin, here in your home.

-All this is what people have sent us. I think it was faith, science and all the energy that people sent. They sent me some holy water which I passed around his neck, I put music on it and she was careful to see which songs she reacted to, combed her hair, cut her nails. And I was wondering all the time “Why?”. Because she, who was only 19 years old.

– And did you find the answer?

– I found the “for what”. Malena has been involved in stroke awareness and prevention for four years. She gives speeches, explains what the symptoms are like, what makes us sick, high blood pressure, tobacco … But it was also to unite the family, because at that time we were divided.

She explains: “My children Juan and Julián lived with their father (the reporter Pichuqui Mendizabal) and Malena with me. At that moment there was a short circuit and the family broke up, was divided “.

– Did it happen after you two separated?

Yes, it had to do with that. But when Malena happened, the family reunited. and I said “Bitch, at a very high price”but the family has returned.

-Then you went through a great depression.

-Yes, it was awful. I had a nice project with a friend, in a field near Luján. We started it and at the moment he started to flood, because the water table was going up. I lost 50 thousand dollars there. She gave me tremendous depression and I asked my children to admit me, because I felt that analysis alone would not cure me. I was hospitalized for a whole month.

“I used to stick pineapples to the wall”

-And then you met a rather unscrupulous dentist …

-Oh, what a bad time I’ve been through! Four years without being able to eat meat, chewing a piece of chicken for fifteen minutes, until I got depression and gave up on food. I weighed 35 kilos. And, in addition, the complaints on social networks.

-To you?

– If that he was a monster, he was scary. One also asked me what illness I had

-How did that dentist appear?

-The dentist was a friend of a person who recommended him to me. He seemed like a good guy, he was from La Plata. He took his he twine, but I started having problems. I took a bite of a croissant soaked in coffee with milk and I heard a “crack”. And then I felt pain, the bite was not correct. I later found out from my dentist, Marcelo Carta, who went to live in Ushuaia, that I had bent pins.

-But since you’ve lost so much, haven’t you consulted your family doctor?

-We were in a pandemic, the doctors were not present. And fewer dentists. after they told me “Why are you scratching the dentist like that?”. Crazy, I sat like this for four years, until at one point, faced with so many complaints, I had to whitewash to stop so many insults on social networks.

-And what did you do with that dentist? Did you sue him?

-No, he’s wasting gunpowder on chimangos, continuing to hurt my blood. I sent him a letter of documents, I think it was at his father’s house, and they sent it back. And he went to live in Barcelona, ​​but he no longer works as a dentist. I spoke via whatsapp with him in Barcelona. and he told me “Maybe I’ll be back at the end of the year”. And I replied: “But when you come back I’ll be a corpse”.

And releases: “I hurt my hands because I hit the pineapple on the wall. It was extremely painful.”.

And, what’s more, the pandemic

-Your was a doubly terrible pandemic … pain, anguish, anger.

– annoyance, a total hatred of living in such an unfortunate situation after trusting and paying, and that he didn’t take charge and didn’t give me a solution. In fact, he sent me to see a colleague of his and, when he saw my mouth, he said “I would never have done that job”. You were wrong, an inexperienced.

Are you finishing the treatment now?

-Yup, only my upper teeth are missing. But Marcelo travels here every fortnight, we are doing it little by little. The good thing is that I don’t feel pain anymore and I can eat.

-Is this about you recovering from adversity, has your life always been like this?

-Yes, I have many affections, many loves that support me and that are already in a better place (look up). I was a little lonely with those people and I miss them. I miss my mother, my father, Pichuqui …

“He, who was my partner, became like a son, and when he got sick I took care of him until the last day.

Juan Carlos Mendizábal, her husband of 25 years, He died of liver cancer on January 4, 2012. “I had a lot of love and affection for him, even though we were apart,” she shares.

And he is proud of his roots: “Look, I always intend to help. I learned it from my parents. And from the humility that comes from a neighborhood, from Villa Luro.”

The controversy with Polka

-Are you still angry with Adrián Suar?

-Suar is offended with me, because I told the truth in front of the camera. I turned 66, I’m not silent anymore, what I have to say I say. The truth is, I felt abused. Doing a benefit has never paid me a benefit. She always humiliated me, she never considered me. I heard it I considered myself just a supporting actress. And she didn’t give me the place I earned and felt I deserved.

And, in the privacy of his home, he leaves without saving anything: “I gave everything to Polka, ten hours a day running on the track to record … I am a person who studies, I am not a person who goes there I study the letter for jam, I come from Alberto Migré’s school. I have won two consecutive Martín Fierro, one for samples (1999) and another by First fruits (2000) “.

His anger comes from afar, ever since he had one of the leading roles in the strip in 2007 iron soundsharing the poster with Osvaldo Laport. Maria recently brought out a certain sizzle he would have had with Suar. And he came out to answer her: “If you felt you didn’t have the role you deserved I apologize. I love her very much and at any moment she will return to Polka like all actresses. “

But the Valenzuela was not completely satisfied.

“And what are you going to do, talk to him?”

-Not me I feel hurt, I feel hurt by what happened. I think what would correspond, since he gave me an expiration date, is for him to call me and say: “Maria, let’s have a coffee and let’s finish with this”. I won’t call him, too I don’t want to be told he’s not here or he’s busyI don’t want to eat that crisis.

-If he calls you, as he said at the time, would you work with him again?

-I work with him again, but as an invitation for a couple of chapters. But why I don’t want to do television anymore. They are very long days and I have already lived them. What I want now is to do theater and live life.

The salvation of the theater

-We return to comedy with “100 square meters”.

-Yes, my psyche too, my body He asks me for tobacco when four hours have passed and I haven’t smoked a cigarette. I come to do Eva and Vittoriaa wonderful work directed by Manuel González Gil and we replace him one hundred square meters. We will take it all over the country. We will go for a few days to Mar del Plata and then to the rest of the Costa. But many tours, because people thank you for it.

-This is not seen much now, Darío Vittori did it a lot.

-Yup! I worked with Vittorio. I worked with El Tano and the last thing I did with him was Sandro’s film I went up I’ll take you (1980), where he played my uncle. Sandro was wonderful, he had a great sense of humor. I told Pichuqui “I take it, I eat her mouth with a kiss and I give it back to you” …