A few hours ago it was reported that Ernestina Sodi is hospitalizedalthough so far no family member has confirmed what happened to the Thalia’s sister.
This morning on the show Wake up America it was mentioned that Ernestina Sodi She was still in intensive care after suffering two heart attacks, since she was admitted for one and shortly after she had a rupture of the aorta vein that caused the second: “her state of health is still reserved,” they said in the program.
So far there are no details about what happened to the writer, who is also the mother of the actress. Camila Sodi and who was kidnapped more than 20 years ago.
What was the kidnapping of Laura Zapata and Ernestina Sodi like?
He September 22, 2002 It was a day that marked the history of entertainment in Mexico: Laura Zapata and Ernestina Sodi, sisters of Thaliawere kidnapped by a criminal organization who kept them in captivity for several days.
Both were kidnapped while leaving a theater in Mexico City, after Zapata gave a performance in the staging. Bernarda Alba’s house.
“We started to see a truck with a car, like they were fighting, and suddenly we saw that a guy with long weapons got out of the truck and I told him ‘wow, they have long weapons and they are coming towards us.’ He broke my glass with the butt of the gun, I took off a diamond ring and put it on my chest, I opened the door and said ‘Let them take the car,'” Laura said in an interview with Yordi Rosado.
After arriving at one of the safe houses where they were locked up, the kidnappers told them that they were waiting for a $5 million rewardthe same one that had to be paid Tommy Mottola, Thalía’s husband.
“This is a kidnapping, it’s nothing personal,” they were told, as Zapata has mentioned in several interviews. However, she told her captors that she had no relationship with her sister and even less with her brother-in-law, so she doubted that they would give anything for her.
“I don’t know if he has one, two or five million pesos and I don’t think it’s going to give a penny for me.”, he mentioned. First they released Laura and then Ernestina, which resulted in an ‘ordeal’ for the Sodi familywhich lasted around 45 days.
Laura Zapata, actress recognized for her roles in soap operas, and Ernestina Sodi, writer and journalist, lived a traumatic experience that marked their lives and resonated in the media for a long time.
This not only because of the kidnapping itself, but because of both their versions and because this marked a before and after in their family relationship, which was permanently fractured.
What did Ernestina Sodi say about her kidnapping?
Years after the unfortunate event, Ernestina Sodi wrote a book titled Deliver us from evil and published it in 2005. In it, Camila Sodi’s mother narrates in detail her traumatic experience during the kidnapping she suffered with her sister, actress Laura Zapata, in 2002.
“They put me in the trunk of a car, tied hands and feet. The first thing I feel is that I’m short of breath and then, when they put the quilt on top of me, I start to go crazy. Is the most terrible feeling I have ever experienced. In the darkness of the trunk I think that they are going to kill me,” Sodi indicates in the text.
However, the publication of his memoirs caused controversy because it contradicted many situations already narrated by his sister Laura Zapataincluding how she was freed and what happened during her captivity.
For example, Ernestina assured that his sister Thalia was in charge of the negotiations with the kidnappers to free her, and that during the time she was in captivity was a rape victim.
In his subsequent interviews, Sodi has mentioned that it took him a long time to process and talk about what happened, given that society usually blames the victims or downplays this type of abuse when a person is deprived of their freedom.
Another of the situations that caused controversy is that he accused Laura Zapata of intervening so that she was not released in less time than she was locked up. “’Let’s let your friend go, now we get her going and she’s gone.’ My sister answers them: – No! Please don’t let her go, she’s not my friend, she’s my sister,” he reportedly said.
He even went so far as to say that the crime was orchestrated by his own sister to take advantage of Thalia and her husband.
Did Ernestina Sodi lie about the kidnapping? This is what Laura Zapata said
Thanks to this series of events, the ties between Laura Zapata and Ernestina Sodi; not only with them, but with the actress with her other sisters, including Thalía.
Among the first statements that Laura Zapata made when she found out what her sister Ernestina’s book said, was that she felt disconcerted, because she did not know anything about what she mentioned.
“For me it was a surprise,” he told the program. The fat and the skinny at the time. “It is something very painful, very sad, (…) very dirty, something that I knew from the beginning,” although she clarified that she was not there at the time when her ex-mother-in-law Diego Luna was allegedly raped. “It’s something that I didn’t witness, I wasn’t a witness,” he said.
In an interview with Gustavo Adolfo Infante for the program The minute my destiny changedin 2018, Zapata shared what happened the day they were both kidnapped, but assured that Ernestina lied about the statements in her book.
“Of course he lied”Laura said flatly. Thalía’s half-sister said that, until the last moment in which they were kept together, deprived of their freedom, the kidnappers did not attack any of them.
Furthermore, she assured that she herself met with Genaro García Lunathen head of the Federal Investigation Agency (AFI), to help him free his sister, and so he did.
“All this betrayal of our pain and our brotherhood together, well, it took me a long time to understand it. It was something tremendous, not only the kidnapping, the kidnapping, but also meeting and discovering what that was and then the betrayal, the betrayal of blood,” he said in statements recovered by Telemundo.
