Last Thursday, María Jiménez died in Seville, at the age of 73, due to lung cancer. A death that caught many by surprise, but that her close circle knew well. In fact, during the last year, the actress had recorded a documentary series about her life where she explained, among other things, the details of her illness.
Throughout the film, broadcast this Sunday under the title María Jiménez: my world is another, María spoke about her hard childhood with an alcoholic mother, the sexist violence she suffered and also how she felt having to put on a wig after start chemotherapy. The artist, who never mince words about her, made it clear with her words that her death was not her concern. However, her fate, as we know, was different.
"I want to tell you something that I have never talked about," María Jiménez began by saying at one point in the first chapter of her documentary series. "I have cancer, right now they have detected a spot on my lung, they are giving me chemotherapy pills," the singer continued.
And then, with astonishing serenity, he revealed something important about the side effects of said chemotherapy: "My hair has fallen out and what I am wearing is a wig, gentlemen." Her countenance, while she explained this detail to some people so hard, was calm, without being ashamed. In fact, in the documentary you can see images of Jiménez without a wig and with a shaved head.
However, the artist always thought that she could overcome the disease. You just have to listen to how he talks about it during the interview: “Lung cancer came into my life and has become my travel companion. When the doctor tells me that I have cancer, I tell him: 'Well, very well, it will be cured, that in the past it was not cured, but now it is'”.
But his doctor, Dr. García Aguilar, recounted the hardness of the moment: “When a patient comes to the office and we have to inform him that he has lung cancer and we have to tell him that he cannot remove anything to cure himself because it will only "You can give treatment, you don't need to be very aware to know that it is a non-curable disease."
Hence, María lived day by day, deciding to make the most of every minute, despite not taking care of herself, as her sister claimed during the film. For the singer, cancer was another ingredient in her life. “If you are weak, you create the disease and the devil takes you,” said María Jiménez.
And regarding the pain she felt due to the illness, the dancer made an unusual reflection on the matter: “I don't have the sense of pain, so I'm not scared. When it's an unknown pain, you wonder what's going on here. When it is a normal pain, why are you going to be scared?”
