Overview
- The 99-year-old television icon was taken to the Sanatorio Mater Dei on Friday and admitted with a condition the hospital described as compatible with a lung illness.
- This return to hospital came less than a week after a Sept. 7 admission for a bronchial respiratory episode and a brief discharge to continue recovery at home.
- Family sources say she continued to have a persistent cough before the readmission and her granddaughter Juana Viale is again covering her television duties while she recovers.
- Doctors are proceeding cautiously because Legrand’s advanced age and recent cardiac history, including a 2023 pacemaker and a 2021 coronary intervention, raise the risk that respiratory infections will worsen.
- The hospital said it will issue another bulletin on Monday if there are no changes and the family publicly thanked staff while asking the public to respect her privacy.