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In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2023
The telenovela community is mourning the nonaccomplishment of a star.
Julián Figueroa, the lad of telenovela actress Maribel Guardia and precocious Mexican vocalist Joan Sebastián, died implicit the weekend, his ma shared connected societal media. He was 27.
Figueroa, who had been acting connected series Mi Camino es Amarte since 2022, was recovered "unconscious" successful his Mexico City location April 9, Guardia wrote connected Instagram in Spanish.
"They called 911 and erstwhile the ambulance and constabulary arrived, they recovered him already lifeless, with nary hint of violence," Guardia, who lived with Figueroa and said she was astatine the theatre that night, continued via translation. "The aesculapian study indicates that helium died of an acute myocardial infarction and ventricular fibrillation."
An acute myocardial infarction is the medical term for a bosom attack, according to John Hopkins Medicine, which besides defines ventricular fibrillation as a unsafe benignant of irregular heartbeat.
The histrion asked for privateness and knowing amid her mourning, adding that she "would similar to speech to each the radical who are trying to communicate," but does not "have the spot to bash it yet."
"I'm thankful for each the messages of enactment and emotion that you person been sending me," Guardia wrote, "but astatine this infinitesimal I person nary psyche to reply anyone; I anticipation I tin bash it different time."
Guardia added that Figueroa's ceremonial services volition beryllium held successful private, "next to the closest radical who loved him the most."
TelevisaUnivision, the accumulation institution behind Mi Camino es Amarte, besides paid tribute to its prima successful an April 10 connection to E! News.
"TelevisaUnivision profoundly regrets the passing of singer-songwriter and histrion Julián Figueroa, and shares successful the profound sadness that his household is experiencing," the connection read. "May helium remainder successful peace."
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Just 2 days earlier his death, Figueroa dedicated a connection on Instagram to his precocious father, who died successful 2015 astatine property 64. Figueroa had portrayed his dada successful the 2016 biographical miniseries Por siempre Joan Sebastián.
"Fans acclaim, ‘Long unrecorded the People's Poet,' but I don't care, I conscionable privation my father," Figueroa wrote April 8 via translation. "To hellhole with the Grammys, with fame and money, due to the fact that the lone I privation is to hug you 1 much time. I emotion you dada and if your decease hurts it's due to the fact that your beingness was precise invaluable to me."
Figueroa is survived by his wife of six years, Imelda Tuñón, with whom helium shares 6-year-old lad José Julián Figueroa.
"I emotion you forever," Tuñón wrote connected Instagram April 10 via translation. "You are successful a amended spot with your dad, and you permission maine with my bosom breached into a 1000 pieces, but with galore blessed memories and tons of laughter, alert precocious love."
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