José Antonio Reyes, former Benfica playerSeville, Arsenal and Real Madrid, died in June 2019, aged 35, in a car accident in Spain. He left behind a wife and two minor daughters, aged just five and two at the time.. Six and a half years after the tragedy, the Spanish star’s widow was on Telecinco paying tribute to Reyes and reporting the drama he has been experiencing since he was diagnosed with gynecological cancer. “It was a very complicated and difficult period to deal with. It caused me a lot of anxiety and a lot of fear“, he assumed in front of the cameras Noelia Lopez.
“After my husband’s death, I thought nothing worse could happen. My daughters were nine and five years old at the time“, he said. “At first, everything seemed very bad. I leaned on people who helped me in life; they are true angels“, he also added.
He revealed that he was diagnosed with an inoperable gynecological tumor. Continue to undergo treatment. “At the first consultation, they found something else in a different place, and that’s when I said: ‘It can’t be…’ I started another treatment”, he said. “From that moment on, everything went well“, he clarified.
However, he still remembers the moment of having to tell his daughters that he was sick as one of the worst moments of this entire process: “I didn’t use the word cancer. I told them that their mother was sick and that we would pray a lot and ask their father (…) The hair started to fall out during the first chemotherapy session. I told them that there was a medicine that made hair fall out and my little one said to me: ‘don’t take it anymore‘.”
“When my hair started to fall out, I took two scissors and gave them one each and said: ‘Let’s cut it’. They asked, “How do you want us to cut it?” They cut it very short. Then, when I no longer had hair, I started wearing a wig. But there was a day when they saw me without hair, and the reaction was impressive… ‘Mom, you look beautiful!’. They saw me with my eyes… beautiful with or without hair“, he reported still through tears.
