Mauricio Kubrusly “has stopped knowing where he is”, says the wife of the journalist who suffers from dementia

Mauricio Kubrusly “has stopped knowing where he is”, says the wife of the journalist who suffers from dementia


“It was nice that he was an atheist, because he has no God to blame,” said Beatriz Goulart at the premiere of the documentary “Kubrusly: Mistério Semper Há de Pintar Por Aí”

Beatriz Goulart spoke about her husband’s state of health, Maurizio Kubruslybest known for his reports on Bring me Brazilfrom Fantasticin the 2000s, at the age of 79, he suffers from a frontotemporal dementia. Diagnosed in 2016, he no longer reads or writes and speaks less and less, as well as having difficulty recognizing other people.

“He stopped knowing where he is. Before we walked kilometers. Now we walk about 500 meters because he gets tired,” he said in an interview with the newspaper The globe on the occasion of the release of the documentary Kubrusly: There will always be mystery around (to read the review).

Beatriz recalls difficulties with the doctors at certain points in the treatment, including the fact that the disease was initially confused with possible Alzheimer’s: “They treated him like a celebrity and not like a patient. They asked about the television and we were ‘in the dark.’ ‘”.

The architect also underlined that Mauricio Kubrusly’s relationship with religion may have helped him deal with the situation: “At this point, it was nice that he was an atheist, because he has no God to blame. He is very rational, he knows that this It happens to a lot of people.”

Finally he said: “We don’t know how to talk about dementia, we don’t know how to talk about death, we’re ashamed, we say it’s to preserve people’s privacy. But I only think about those graffiti they did in Rio-92, when Chief Raoni and Sting they met: ‘Either we are Raoni, or we are Sting’.”



Source: Terra

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