actor and singer Diego Bertieidol of the Peruvian stages in the 90s, passed away this Friday at the age of 54, as a result of a fall from a raised floor in the building where he lived in front of the Lima boardwalk.
Bertie was transferred by firefighters early this Friday to the Casimiro Ulloa hospital, in the Miraflores district, after being found badly injured in the building’s garage, where his death was only certified at 4:10 a.m., according to local media reports.
According to the version of a building worker, the artist lived alone on the 14th floor of the building and at some point in the morning fell from that place. In recent weeks, Bertie had resumed his concerts in Lima with a music band to present new songs, in addition to the classics that he popularized with his group Images about 30 years ago.and in parallel he offered several interviews on television to talk about his career.
In one of those interviews, the popular film, theater and television actor confessed that he had a short affair with the journalist and writer Jaime Bayly and that he took that story to his first novel (1994) and subsequent film “Don’t tell anyone”, generating a fight between the two that was never resolved.
Bertie, divorced and with a daughter, ventured into the theater in works such as Annie, Yepeto, Oedipus the King, Life is a Dream, and in recent years he acted in the musicals La Cage de las Locas and Mamma mía.
Likewise, he acted in the cinema in Reportaje a la muerte, We are all stars, Without compassion, The elusive good, The Andes do not believe in God, among others, as well as in television soap operas Rosa de América, Natacha, Obsesión, Leonela, Hunting my millionaire, Everything is worth it, The successful Gómez, and There is room in the background, among other titles.
The Gran Teatro Nacional published a message on its social networks in which it regretted “deeply” the death of the actor and expressed his condolences to his loved ones, accompanied by a photograph of the artist born in 1967. Similarly, the Ministry of Culture “deeply lamented the death of actor and singer Diego Bertie, recognized for his work in film, television and theater” and expressed its condolences to his family and friends. .
The popular Peruvian actor and musician Christian Meier wrote on his Twitter account: “Since I was a child I wanted to be an actor for you. I am an actor for you. I always loved you, I always admired you. Too soon Diego”.