Overview

• Florinda Meza has branded critics “traitors” on social media and is preparing a lawsuit to contest the HBO Max biopic’s depiction of her relationship with Roberto Gómez Bolaños.
• Meza announced Atrévete a vivir, a documentary intended to present her personal account and counter what she describes as dramatized scenes in the series.
• Legal tensions led producers to rename her character Margarita Ruiz in Chespirito: Sin querer queriendo to avoid unauthorized use of Meza’s real name and likeness.
• Supporters including niece Alejandra Ávalos and former cast member Edgar Vivar have defended Meza’s decades-long, consensual partnership with Bolaños and condemned the surge of online vitriol.
• Produced by Bolaños’s heirs, the biopic’s fictionalized reconstructions have reignited debates over marital infidelity, creative control and the ethics of dramatizing his intimate legacy.