Rafael suffered an apparent stroke during the taping of a TV show last Tuesday. A few hours after the incident, new information was released about what happened to the 81-year-old singer and his state of health.
What happened to Raphael?
According to 20min, the Spanish performer was already “feeling bad” when he arrived at Madrid’s Príncipe Gran Vía theater.
Rafael began to feel unwell in the middle of the recording of the program’s Christmas special “La Revuelta”. As one of those present told the Spanish media, when the singer came out “everything was going well”, but afterwards “he seemed to be stuck when he spoke, he seemed disoriented”.
Sources from the interpreter’s representative office informed EFE that, not feeling well, he left “on foot to catch the ambulance”.
Did Raphael have a stroke?
The first reports from Spanish newspapers, citing “sources close” to the singer, claim that Rafael suffered a cerebrovascular accident.
His family preferred to keep the medical reports private, “only the family knows the diagnosis,” said Patricia, Rafael’s secretary, in an interview with the newspaper LARAZÓN.
Raphael, according to sources from RLM, his representative office, informed EFE, the singer seems to have suffered a “transient” episode and it’s “good”. In addition, they clarified that El Divo de Linares did not suffer a stroke.
The interpreter has already seen a neurologist, but remains in the hospital to continue undergoing various tests and to be able to “rule out anything”.
What is the state of Raphael’s health?
The interpreter of “Mi gran noche” is progressing well, according to sources “close to the artist” who told El País newspaper.
“He spent the night at the factory, calm, conscious and accompanied by his children,” they said.
According to statements by his ex-wife, Amelia Bono, for Europa Press, Raphael is out of danger.
The 81-year-old performer’s medical report, released by Spanish media, states that “by the will of the patient and his family” he will be transferred to the 12 de Octubre University Hospital. “Given the transplant history he underwent at the above-mentioned center and for the ongoing medical follow-up to be performed by the said hospital.”
Source: univision
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