Gustavo Cerati's family has reached out to the public after false rumors stated the the Argentine singer had died. The Cerati Family has updated their Facebook and has explained the situation and Cerati's current condition. "We need to clear up something that is recurring in web publications, false rumors and cruel jokes that come up from anonymous sources (although it seems incredible that someone exists that is able to do so). It still surprises us that some communication professionals replicate information without checking. And their have been various cases."
"Being our priority to attend and take care of Gustavo, these situations add up to, having to clarify what should not be necessary, beyond the harm this causes us," the statement continued. "We ask all the Gustavo followers to only believe our voice. We ask them and the professional media correspondants to not echo any of these messages without a base or backing. Of course we will take this time to thank the support and respect of the majority of people, that for more than three years has been by our side and has demostrated it every day in many ways."
The previous week, Lilian Clark phoned in to television show "Gracias Por Venir" where they were holding a tribute to Cerati. As one of the guest was the plastic artist, Gustavo Masó, who last month wrote a letter to Pope Francis. The letter actually got to the hands of the Supreme Pontiff and he replied. Clark read the letter on air that said: "Mr. Gustavo Maso thanks for your letter of the 20th. It allowed me to reconnect with Gustavo. It’s out of habit that we put life away as in an archive. And life goes on. Wait. It disappears and then reappears. The cruelest archivist is forgetfulness."
"He was right, our Borges (ed. Jorge Borges, Argentina’s world famous writer), when he told us ‘only one thing I have not achieved: it’s forgetfulness’. Yes, with regard to God. But amongst ourselves, forgetfulness exists and it is cruel. Thanks for giving breath to the breezes of a memory.”
Words directed to Cerati's mother were also included in the letter, “Please tell Lilian that her witness has done me a great good, her courage in continuing to wait, and that I am with her. It is difficult to say anything more about a relationship as sacred as the one between a mother and a son. But I hope that she will accept that my silence has become a prayer. I am at her disposal. Please, I ask her to pray for me. May Jesus bless her and the Holy Virgin watch over her. Cordially Francisco”
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