Overview

• Susana Zabaleta recounted that during an October 2024 concert in Oaxaca, Francisco Céspedes made an explicit onstage comment that she said violated her personal boundaries.
• She said the remark provoked her partner, comedian Ricardo Pérez, to nearly confront Céspedes before fellow performer Slobotzky intervened.
• Following reports by TVNotas and Céspedes’s public reference to her alleged illness, Zabaleta’s family and her representative officially denied any lymphoma diagnosis.
• At her son Matías Gruener’s album launch, she refused to discuss her health, insisting the focus remain on his work.
• Both Zabaleta and Céspedes have issued statements as entertainment media continue to scrutinize the unfolding dispute over privacy and respect.