Mexican crooner Vincente Fernandez has raised more than a few eyebrows with an admission: He turned down a much-needed liver transplant over fears the organ would come from a gay man.
Fernandez, known in Mexico as “El Rey” (The King), has sewn a long and esteemed career as a singer of Ranchero music. Now 79, the singer revealed he discovered he had liver cancer during his farewell tour in 2012. Rather than get an immediate liver transplant, Fernandez refused a donated organ over fears that it could come from a gay man or drug addict (how classy that he equates the two).
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“They wanted to put a liver of another bastard,” Fernandez recalled during an interview with the Mexican talk show De Primera Mano. “I said: ‘I’m not going to sleep with my wife with the liver of another guy. I do not know if he was a homosexual or a drug addict.'”
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Fernandez eventually relented and underwent a successful transplant in Chile. Though now retired from live performance, he continues to record and write new music.
The multiple Grammy Award-winner has recorded over 50 albums.
Vince
Yeah, I wonder how many people died because they didn’t have the means to afford it over this bigoted POS Polka player who’s only got maybe a year or two left anyways. They say 21,000 are on the list.
IWantAFullBeard
Is hombre dead yet?
hayesj
Too bad they wasted a perfectly good liver on such a worthless piece of garbage.
Bytemenow
Cool. I hope the liver goes to a deserving, sane person instead.
Invalid
Let him die.
Juanjo
Vicente’s upset because around 20 years ago his recently married son was discovered in flagrante delicto with his “business manager” by his wife. The son, Alejandro, was not the top in that tryst. He had words with his son and they have been a bit cool with each other since. Vicente is not exactly an enlightened man. He was a long haul truck driver with around 6 years of education when his singing career took off and he started making money. He is still an ignorant, whoring, old reprobate just like he has been his entire life.
Kangol2
Thanks for that background info, @Juanjo.
radiooutmike
Stupid man he is.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Hopefully he’ll suffer an excruciating long painful agonizing death….
jcoberkrom
There had to be a more deserving recipient!
justgeo
SO let the pos die. Why give him space here?
nitejonboy
Waste of a good liver, I woulda let the piece of shit die.