«I have learned to love my mother more than I already loved her» | The truth

Now Paz returns to the fray with 'Mother!' (HarperCollins), a tribute to her mother, Doña Lola, and “to all the women who have given birth to life and who have dedicated theirs to raising their children, putting aside their dreams, so that they can fulfill them,” it stated. this week during the release of the issue, at the Alcázar theater in Madrid. The author said that after the success of the previous book, launching 'Madre!' It's a lot of responsibility”. «I never thought that 'The humor of my life' would generate so many emotions and that so many people would read it or give it as gifts. Of course one wants the next book to have the same success, but the only thing that matters to me is, at least, being able to help as they tell me I helped with the other one,” she stated, as if wanting to lower expectations.

The truth is that the presentation, attended by family and friends including his daughter Anna Ferrer, Mónica Fernández de Valderrama (from Materia Prima), Carlos Baute, Javier Sardá and Rosa Benito, was exquisite and somewhat unexpected. Because yes, Paz went on stage to tell first-hand what had prompted him to write a book that, through stories and anecdotes, always woven with the humor that characterizes the woman from Cádiz, weaves a story about a woman whom she describes as “wonderful and incredible.”

“I have learned to love her more than I already loved her because through my brothers, of whom there are seven, I have met seven different mothers,” she said before making it clear that a mother never retires because it is a “life title” and of slipping to those present that the only thing he wants is “for my daughter to have as much admiration for me as I had for her.”

“My grandmother and my mother had it very difficult,” he reflected. Being a woman in that dark Spain, during the Civil War or the post-war period, was terrible. The woman had to keep quiet and look down. My mother was humble, very simple, almost illiterate, but she instilled in us some very basic principles, fundamental to living on this planet. Of them, she said, and of all the women who have crossed her path, “I have learned to be a strong woman, with a great capacity for resilience.”

A heartfelt theatricalization

But the presentation contained much more. After the writer opened the channel, the actor Antonio Resines, the singer Concha Buika and the guitarist Juan Fernández de Valderrama, from Materia Prima, took the stage. It was then that Resines and Padilla took the opportunity to dramatize some of the passages from the book, with the comedian very immersed in the role, while Juan and Buika accompanied the passages with a delicious soundtrack.

Paz, for example, said that when she was barely 14 years old, her grandmother Anita met her grandfather, a civil guard who had been transferred from Talavera de la Reina to Medina-Sidonia and they were practically forced to marry. One day, he left, leaving Anita alone with her five children. After years, she knocked on her door again. With five mouths to feed, Anita let him in again.

“Then they say that life was better before, but those were other times when we swallowed without question,” justified the actress, who related the anecdote to her own life journey. «When I separated from my first husband, I did nothing but cry. And my mother told me: 'Don't cry anymore, you don't even need a man to get off,'” the comedian revealed, causing laughter from those present.

She also revealed that she and her siblings found the family book and discovered that the wedding between Lola and Luis, her father, had taken place two months before the birth of their first child. Paz went to prick her mother about the matter, but she denied it. “No, I didn't sleep with your father before marriage, I did it on the stairs,” she confessed.