Santi Cañizares and Mayte García are one of the most regular couples in the world of the Spanish heart. Despite not being featured in frequently aired news or regularly appearing in social gatherings or programs, they always have a place in the imagination of many people related to the social chronicle. However, his story is full of bumps in the road, including the tragic loss of his son Santi.
It was in 2018 when the little boy died at the age of 5, due to a brain tumor. A very painful blow for the family, which would maintain the memory of his son for years to come. “For me, my son is still alive. "I can't hug his body, but I can hug his soul," Mayte confessed in one of his first interviews after what happened, for Lecturas magazine. Despite this, Santi's last days were extremely complicated.
This is what Mayte García wanted to express in person, who has starred in the Scoop of ¡De friday! in its most recent edition on Telecinco. The program presented by Beatriz Archidona and Santi Acosta has been loaded with material: from Antonio Tejado's statement before the judge to the last hour of Supervivientes, including the testimony of Al Bano and the new partner of the presenter Carmen Alcayde.
Even so, it was García who shared the most forceful statements of the night, expressing how they discovered Santi's tumor and how they spent the time they had left together. The little boy's mother recounted how it all started one day when she began to have vomiting and dizziness, before starting to convulse and go into a coma. It was then that, at the hospital, the doctor told her that she had a brain tumor.
The situation worsened by leaps and bounds, suffering three cerebral infarctions the next day, undergoing life-or-death surgery as his mother herself explained. That was the prelude to 18 months of struggle, in which the family tried everything possible. It was 3 months before Santi died that they explained to Mayte that there was nothing to do, and the complications reached a turning point that, as she explained in her interview, became unsustainable.
After two more cardiorespiratory arrests in which García was left screaming at the doctors, they told her that her son was holding on and did not want to leave for her. Hence, Mayte took him in her arms and “gave him permission” to leave and stop suffering. Santi Acosta defined this interview as one of the toughest he has conducted in his journalistic career, before calling out the mother's presence on the set of ¡De friday! next week.
