In October 1987, Silvia Pasquel experienced what no mother wants, the death of one of her children. At two, her daughter Viridiana Margarita Frade Banquells drowned in the house’s pool. The little girl lost her life five years after Viridiana Alatriste, sister of the actress.
Viridiana Margarita was born from Silvia Pasquel’s then love affair with Fernando Frade, her mother’s partner, Silvia Pinal. This man separated mother and daughter for a while.
An oversight by the nanny cost the life of Silvia Pasquel’s daughter; In an interview for the program The minute that changed my life, the actress commented on this tragedy in her life:
“No word describes a mother who loses a child… it is so painful that no word can describe it. Yet, you will never forget it.”
Her Bond with Her Daughter
Silvia Pasquel’s daughter played with a duckling that she had been given for her birthday. Little Viridiana went after her duckling that she had thrown into the pool. When the nanny remembered, the girl was already in the collection, drowned.
Silvia Pasquel named her daughter Viridiana in honor of her sister Viridiana Alatriste, who died in October but in 1982 in a car accident.
Her Condition after the Tragedy
After the tragedy, Fernando Frade and Sylvia Pasquel divorced. Soon after, she reconciled with her mother, Silvia Pinal.
Both deaths have been mentioned in the series Silvia Pinal in front of you, based on the so-called “Last Diva of Mexican Cinema” life. Silvia Pasquel points out that it was a tough blow. She even believed that she was her punishment for having married an ex of her father.
It is a pain that you never get over, that you always carry with you. Then, of course, you learn to cope with it, but it is at the end of the day.
It should be noted that Silvia Pinal never met her granddaughter Viridiana Margarita. “I didn’t meet her. I didn’t want to meet her. There was no point in it,” the actress told Gustavo Adolfo Infante.
The Pain of a Mother
The most significant pain for a mother is losing her child. And Sylvia Pasquel lived this and has been marked for more than 30 years, when her little Margarita Viridiana tragically died, barely two years old.
The girl drowned in the pool of her house in October 1987, when she was looking for esoteric solutions to the problems she was facing. That has been her most incredible suffering, which does not erase the passage of time.
Recently, the artist gave interviews that she reviewed Univision, in which she opened her soul and heart to talk about the sad subject.
Family Crisis
She said that in 1987 she was going through a difficult time, especially in the family sphere.
Five years earlier, on October 25, 1982, her sister Viridiana had died at the age of 19 in a car accident, and this fact took the actress out of balance.
“Going through such a painful moment takes you out of your axis, and I opened the door to situations that, in other circumstances, I would not have done. In those days, I was in denial.”