Three years without Julián
Maribel Guardia continues to navigate the duel. This Tuesday, the actress shared an intimate message to remember her son, Julián Figueroa, three years after his death.
“JULIÁN 3 years… without air, without hope, without your light, without you,” he wrote alongside a photo of the singer smiling. They are words that weigh. In recent days he also revealed that he tattooed Julián’s eye on his arm and that he has a huge portrait of him in his dressing room at the San Rafael Theater.
Absence is a space that occupies everything.
A memory that passes through
In an interview with EL UNIVERSAL, Maribel reflected on the years she had with him:
“I try not to be absent from her son’s childhood, and she feels grateful that God has lent him to her for 27 years.”
That idea of ‘borrowed’ hurts and comforts at the same time. It’s the kind of thinking you try to make peace with.
But it was not the only tribute of the day. Zarelea Figueroa, Julián’s half-sister and Joan Sebastian’s daughter, published a text so moving that, as Maribel confessed, it made her cry.
Zarelea wrote directly to her brother:
“Julián, 3 years ago you left me despite our promise to always be together… today I understand that you didn’t leave, you just moved into the most sacred part of my soul forever.”
The entire message is a sweet dagger. He talks about pain as proof of the love lived and ends by asking him to give his father, Joan Sebastian, a hug. It is a family marked by music and loss.
Three years are nothing and they are an eternity. The photos are still there, the tattoos remain, the promises are reinterpreted from memory. Julián’s legacy, beyond his musical career, seems to be this: a love so strong that it hurts to remember it and is impossible to forget it.
