Andrés Aberasturi's son Cristobal dies at just 44 years old: his hard story and the only support for his father

The journalist Andrés Aberasturi (76 years old) has spoken on more than one occasion about the hard story that has accompanied his son Cristobal, whom everyone affectionately knew as Cris, since he was born. The young man suffered from cerebral palsy and this September he left us at just 44 years of age. His father confessed on Risto Mejide's old program, 'Chester', that he believed that Cris loved him, although he was not sure of it: “I don't know if he loves me. I want to think that he does,” he said, adding that “the secret is to live as if he does. If not, I would have no way out. This would be hell.” Now that The young man rests in peace, we want to review the sad story of his short life.

The sad story of Cris, the son of Andrés Aberastur

As confirmed by 'El Español', The young man left us at the beginning of this monthalthough everything related to his death has been carried out in the strictest privacy, since the wish of the Aberasturi Páez family was to be able to say goodbye to the young man in an intimate and private way. The journalist confirmed the death of his son to the aforementioned media, although it was the journalist Sonsoles Onega (46 years old) who ended up confirming it when she gave her condolences to her father live on the program 'Y ahora Sonsoles', where Andrés was participating in a discussion on the occasion of another death, that of the journalist Jimmy Giménez-Arnau.Cuatro Aberasturi has dedicated his entire life not only to his profession, but also to his son, with whom he spent a lot of time and to whom he gave all his energy and timestarring in a beautiful story of dedication, love and absolute devotion to a young man who has fought to overcome the difficulties that surrounded him every day.

Andrés Aberasturi's book about his son

One of the journalist's goals in recent years has been to try Raise awareness about cerebral palsyexplaining in every program he could attend what it is like to live with someone in that state. This led him to write the book 'How to explain the world to you, Cris: Testimony of life with my Son' in 2016, a treatise in which he tries to “explain the world to his son Cris, who was born with cerebral palsy (…) It is a hard and painful task for Andrés Aberasturi. But the author of these honest and unadorned pages, who only intends to leave testimony of a part of his truth, considers it essential to combat restlessness.”Speaking to the aforementioned media that same year, the journalist stated that he does not consider himself “brave, just I have done what I had to do: fight for our son next to his mother and feel equally proud of my two children, each with their own story, with their own problems. I have two children and the difference is that Andrés, the eldest, has had the opportunity to choose his life but his brother, Cris, has not,” he commented. In addition, he also highlighted the important role of his wife, Guadalupe Paez Vicedo, In the lives of her two children: “The protagonist of Cris's life is his mother, she and he, he and she. To imagine that she once said a word and that it was 'mom' is not to take away a pleasure from me, but to increase it and be fair.”

Andrés talks about the importance of Cris in his life

In his interview with Risto, the journalist confessed what his son meant to him: “Passion, love, pain, joy… A lot of antibiotics, a lot of caressesa lot of sleepless nights, a lot of smiles, a lot of so many things and so contradictory,” adding that he felt grateful to have him in his life, but not in the situation that the young man was living in. “How can I be grateful for having a child with cerebral palsy? It would seem absolutely unfair to me. It is intolerable, not for me, but for him. He cannot choose to communicate, not to know when he is cold… I accept it, but it pisses me off. How can I say that I have learned from him with what he has suffered? Although he felt gratified to have Cris in his life, he was aware of the difficult situation they had to live through: “I know that people say it with good will, but I cannot be happy to learn at the cost of my son's pneumonia. I wanted a son who went out at night, who lived… But not a child who cannot choose. I cannot be happy with that. And anyone who says they are happy, I respect that, but I don't agree with it,” he concluded, not sure if, if he could choose, he would have him again. “Honestly, I don't know. There was one time when we had to choose to give him everything or to keep him calm. And his mother and brother said to go ahead. I don't know what I would have decided if I had been alone.“I would have left him alone,” he commented very sincerely.