Death of three children and his first wife: Manoel Carlos, now 91 years old and with an incurable illness, has strong dramas in his past.
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At 91 years old, retired from TV and diagnosed with an incurable disease, Manuel Carlos accumulates several dramas in his personal life. And he is the author of soap opera classics such as “Felicidade” (1991), “Por Amor” (1997) and “Laços de Família” (2000) and is honored this Friday (3) in Globo’s “Tributo” at 11:15 pm. The series has already edited Lima Duarte and Laura Cardoso, whose only child died days after giving birth.
Retired since the end of “Em Família” (2014), therefore 10 years ago, and with stints at Manchete, Record, Band, TV Tupi and TV Rio (the latter two now extinct), Maneco, as he is known, worked in production programs such as those by Hebe Camargo (1929-2012) and Chico Anysio (1930-2012), in addition to “Fantástico”.
Manoel Carlos’ youngest son died at age 22 in 2014
In his personal life, the author, novelist, director and editor suffered with the tragic death of his first wife and the death of three children – including the youngest, Pedro Almeida, on October 5, 2014 in the USA, aged 22 and whose ashes were thrown into the sea by sister Julia Almeida.
“My heart still aches with sadness/and secret tears still flow./What it meant to love you/no one will ever know./But now I know that you want/for me to stop suffering./Just remember the happy moments/and everything that life still holds./Since you will never be forgotten,/I promise you”, stated Manoel Carlos in his column for the magazine ” Veja Rio ” a week after Pedro’s death.
“We are devastated, my wife and I. It’s my third child who’s gone and…
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