the health of Henry Pinti, who passed away this sunday at 82, he had noticeably deteriorated earlier this month. He was urgently hospitalized in Otamendi on March 5 after having suffered a decompensation at home. Finally, theater impresario Carlos Rottemberg confirmed the sad news to THE NATION: He died this morning at 3:40 in that sanatorium. They will wake him on Monday, although the place has not yet been defined.
Despite the fragility of his health, his environment kept hopes of a recovery. Six days after admission, in dialogue with LA NACION, Rottemberg had confirmed that, after staying a week in intensive care, the capocomico recovered favorably.
“Luckily, his condition improved from Friday to Friday, coming out of the critical frame of last weekend. It’s good news,” the producer had detailed at the time. The actor was even expected to leave the clinic in the next few days if his condition did not change, something that did not happen in the end.
This Saturday afternoon, three weeks after hospitalization Enrique Pinti’s entourage announced that the 82-year-old humorist He had health complications again and they asked for a prayer chain. His basic situation was very complicated: the actor had suffered from diabetes and hypertension for several decades.
These days, on the façade of the Comafi Multitheater there is a large poster with the face of the comedian announcing: “Enrique Pinti. Coming Soon”. With great pain, from the Rottemberg theater they expressed themselves on Twitter about the sad news: “We chose to say goodbye to Enrique Pinti -a huge reference for this Theater House- remembering his last marquee. Finally, his health did not allow him to carry out the announced ‘Very soon’. Undoubtedly, today Enrique stars in one of the sad moments in the history of Argentine theater”.
In recent months, different television shows have given an account of the state of health of the actor who, in addition to his diabetes, I would be going through a severe depression.
In the Chronicle TV cycle The Run Run of the Show, Raúl Martorel assured -at the end of February- that the comedian was undergoing treatment and that a slight improvement had already begun to be noticed.
Some versions indicated that Pinti’s painting was due to profound loneliness and economic problems. In fact, in some programs they emphasized how the most restrictive section of the measures taken by the National Government to curb the scope of the Covid-19 pandemic would have affected it.
Pinti, accustomed to going out and dining with friends, suddenly found himself without that possibility. “In a well-known restaurant that he went to every week for years, they always have his table reserved for him,” Luis Ventura said in in the afternoongiving an account of the way in which their daily life was affected.
It was also mentioned that the actor would be experiencing financial difficulties. However, these versions were denied by the same actor. “Please ask that in this process, which is very slow, no more be said that it is financially bankrupt,” said Martorel.