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The first time I saw Walter Mercado on television it was a shock.
I was like, "What is this that I'm watching?"
If you can give love, if you can receive love?
So what?
Manifest exactly what you want.
Visualize exactly your dreams.
It will be yours.
Follow your heart. Your heart is never wrong.
I have a theory that he didn't want to grow old in front of the cameras.
He's sick and he retired.
He lives in a mansion in Puerto Rico that's like a huge fortress
where no one can enter.
People say a lot of things
and invent even more.
These are old things, very old.
Look, Willie!
Look.
It's very emotional for me.
I think that the worst things sometimes are necessary to grow up.
I've had very, very, very difficult problems.
I suffered a lot.
I lost a lot.
I want to tell you the story.
My little doll.
So you're like his right hand?
Look what I got for Runo.
What's her sign?
Her sign is Sagittarius.
And she is Pisces.
I love my family.
But Willie is with me always.
He assists me with my clothes,
with my costumes.
Very small secrets, of course...
I protect Walter from anything, from everything.
So don't get too bitchy with him.
The Triptych of Love, Pain and Death.
Walter, The Stars and You.
And now the sign of Capricorn!
We have two paths, two human beings
and one important decision to make: make it.
You are beginning a cycle of good things: health, money, joy and love.
Have peace in your soul and love for everyone
even for the unsufferable, for the critics and for religious fanatics.
Your whole life changes and you'll be happy.
Time will heal old wounds.
A change is coming, a move, a trip, something very favorable to you.
And it will be very fortunate.
Aquarius: You are a positive Aquarian.
Something important is that you're a go-getter.
You've broken barriers.
You've always loved creating, inventing, hustling.
You never freeze up.
Bill made me the most well-known psychic of this world
the prophet of the new age.
Walter is here to reveal the message of the stars.
I want you to know that the signs are divided into mutable, cardinal and fixed.
Pisces, you're mutable. You go with the flow.
Sometimes people say, "Walter, you are very egocentric or narcissistic."
No matter how much money it costs, I always say, "You have to be radiant.
You have to be Walter."
Have you had any plastic surgery done?
Little arrangement.
A special Botox like Nicole Kidman.
I'm just like Dorian Gray.
My picture is growing old, but I'm growing young.
This is from one of the best designers in Brazil.
Very humble.
Wait. The bracelet is very humble?
Yes. You like it.
Thank you very much and don't miss Walter Mercado's outfit.
It's something like a pumpkin, a pumpkin about to smother him.
It's marvelous.
Night of magic and mystery,
night where anything is possible,
where those we loved and loved us, return to the earth
to seek out the warmth of heart and home, of love.
Love is the reason for everything.
Love is the beginning and the end.
Love is the reason to live.
He broke many boundaries.
His whole look: his capes, the layers, the fabulous costumes.
Now it doesn't seem that strange.
but when he did it, it was scandalous.
And he did it anyway.
How are you doing, little animals of creation?
On this occasion, I'm anxiously awaiting today's guest.
But he's had many problems because of the love of a woman.
In the '90s, they gave me my own show.
It was like a sketch show where I played different characters
and I immediately thought, "I have to do a Walter Mercado impression."
My impression has the same rings, capes, hair.
It's one of the most famous characters I have.
I think a big reason they love it is because it's based on Walter Mercado.
Many of his imitations were meant to ridicule him.
He never liked being imitated.
You appear to be dressed a little bit like me.
Then don't do a bad imitation of me, because everybody does.
I would never wear those pants.
What's your love sign?
Scorpio, shut up...
Ah, he stings from behind!
And I sting from the front!
I'm like you, vice versa and versatile!
You have a very feminine look...
As a kid, over the phone people would call me Miss.
It never bothers me.
"Who is this? Hello, Mrs.--" "No, it's a Mr."
It doesn't bother me.
Are you heterosexual or no?
Let me tell you something,
I respect sex as something sacred.
For me, sex is spiritual.
I'm married to my public, to my people.
Walter is very protective about opening up
including with his family.
I've seen journalists try to talk about his sexuality,
his partners, his love affairs,
and they're topics that he just won't touch.
You don't talk about sexuality or your identity.
Why is that?
What you can see, you don't ask about.
There are things that are just so ingrained
from your childhood, from your family,
that play on repeat in your mind.
It's difficult to change them.
In terms of his open secrets,
I don't think he confirms or denies anything.
You're not telling me that Walter Mercado is a virgin?
You're not telling me that you're a virgin?
The only one in town.
Here I have a tarot deck, a special deck
on such a special day in such a special month.
In the month of love, ladies and gentlemen.
For you, Aquarius, I've pulled a card of strength. Because you're strong now.
No one knocks you down, no one destroys you,
no one holds you back.
You're stronger than ever, Aquarius!
All of these terrible predictions people make,
all of these cataclysms, tragedies, disasters
that are coming with the arrival of the new millenium...
Nobody believe any of it.
Those who follow God, don't fear a thing.
Virgo, what was once so ugly and sad, it all changes.
The waters will recede.
There will be a total change in your life.
So take advantage to realize
that which yesterday you didn't dare to do, Virgo!
Being a messenger of the Aquarian Age,
I bring you messages of light,
of love,
and of peace.
Let's start by broaching the most controversial questions
about Walter Mercado.
All my life.
Why do you mix so many different religions?
Not just, for example, Santeria,
primitive religions, with Christianity, Catholicism, but all of them?
You mix them all and you solve people's problems, why?
No one has a monopoly on God.
It's ridiculous to think so.
It can be Chango or Santa Barbara. Who cares what you call it?
I mix with all kinds of astrology.
I realized that all religions have a point of convergence.
I call it interfaith religion.
You have to be nice to people,
you have to give the best of yourself every moment of your life,
and you have to believe in yourself.
Taurus, be strong, really strong. Insist, don't give up!
Insist until you accomplish what you want. The cosmos will gift it to you.
May God bless all of you, today, tomorrow and always.
My message is to give them the force inside themselves.
You can win. You can do that. Believe in yourself.
I won $9,000 at Indian bingo.
Thank you, Walter. Thank you.
A lot of these hotlines were scams.
Critics would say you were doing it
to make money off of poor, desperate people.
Bakula gave Walter very expensive gifts.
He would arrive at a hotel and he'd have a room totally lined with white roses.
It was very extravagant.
He would say, "Walter, you can't eat rice and beans."
"No, you have to eat caviar
and you have always the most exquisite food."
I had my own airplane. Everything was excellent.
I loved those things.
Walter likes to please everyone.
So if you're kind to him,
he will try to please you.
"On my way!"
He had this power to bewitch him, to wrap him up in promises.
And Walter is so fanciful, he had him hook, line, and sinker.
One night I asked the lawyer to come to my house
and I said, "I have a contract for something quite important."
"Read it very well."
And he said, "Okay, I will do it."
And I don't even read the contract.
That's where the problems began.
Remember that the artist is never a businessman.
An artist is always thinking about his art,
how he's going to look,
how he's going to impress his audience that day.
He tried to sell all my old material.
He was recycling old horoscopes
and running it as if it was current.
But I couldn't stop him because under the new contract
he had control of all materials.
And then he stopped paying. He stopped paying.
Walter continued to record his program
and comply with the contract, but the money wouldn't come.
So at that point Walter cancelled the contract.
But Bill said the contract was for eternity.
In the first lawsuit, one part Bakula won
and another part Walter won,
so then we had to initiate another process.
So we stayed sort of in limbo.
To be in a court fighting with the people that you love
is difficult for me.
And I had to face facts.
That was a difficult time, yes, very difficult.
Six years he fought.
Six lost years, during which he lost millions of dollars.
I was clutching the Bible, praying to God.
Were you worried that this was the end?
Stress was the principle cause of the heart attack.
In Puerto Rico, there wasn't much help for him
so he was moved from hospital to hospital.
You see him fighting for his life.
We're going to do everything in our power.
Let's air lift him.
You don't know what's going to happen, you don't know if he'll make it alive.
We arrived in Cleveland at 5:00 in the morning.
I opened my eyes and I saw...
He was in the hospital for a couple of weeks.
They put in stents and he started to recover.
Thank God, he recovered.
Walter has always been there for us.
At some point, he won't be here, physically.
I can't imagine life without him. At all.
It's got to be a serious blow for him.
He would like to be present
on the TV and reach his audience again.
It has been a loss for him.
But he is very concerned about his image.
He wants to project fabulousness
because that has been the figure he's projected to the public
with his outfits, his sumptuous style.
And then not being able to do it with the same energy he's used to...
It makes him very anxious
because he wants to show his best face to his audience.
Sometimes he'll ask me,
"Do you believe in reincarnation?"
And, "What do you think about death?"
"What happens afterwards?"
How depressing.
As soon as we start talking and the conversation gets going
he stops and doesn't want to talk anymore.
Which side?
He says he's eternal, that he'll live 120 years or more.
Walter, did you ever think you'd reach this level of fame?
No, I'm a Puerto Rican country boy.
And you never thought about making a movie of your life?
I don't want a movie yet.
Because people wait until you're dead to tell legends about you,
I don't want legends!
I still have a lot of years left to live.
To the theater!
I did many productions here, many.
This is where I got the biggest applause of my life.
Thank you.
Take a good look at that beautiful man.
Best smile. Beautiful man.
The honor is mine...
The people in Puerto Rico love you so much.
I grew up watching you with my grandmother.
We watched you every morning.
I remember walking into the room and my grandmother saying...
"They're getting to Sagittarius!"
And we would wait for Sagittarius and Capricorn.
My cape.
I was three times in the Puerto Rican Parade.
I want you to take your natal chart with you.
I want you to know that you have in me
a friend and an admirer.
There's a phenomenon that I can't explain.
We don't understand why
so many young people love and admire him
when they haven't been able to see him on TV in years.
The History Miami Museum has planned
to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of what was
"The Walter Mercado Show"
and your role in the world of astrology.
If we invite everyone in Miami who knows and loves me,
I will need to invite all of my jewelers, perfumers everybody.
It will be a big scandal.
We're anticipating having about two hundred guests.
We have on the list of guests
your friend, Julio... Julio Iglesias.
...and their son, who are my good friends.
And "The Beast."
"The Beast" needs to be there.
Who is "The Beast?"
He's a beast in perfumes.
Beautiful!
This photoshoot today is to promote
the exhibition at the HistoryMiami museum.
Show me some face...
That's what I love.
Beautiful!
And now, George, tell him to put his hands like this.
Do you want a little break? Let's take one.
Because that thing must weigh...
How much does one of those capes weigh?
They must weigh a lot.
Like fifteen pounds.
Dude...
He has a pinched sciatic nerve.
and it's making the movements difficult for him.
I have some capes that are crazy heavy...
but this one weighs like fifteen or twenty.
He gets tired. He gets tired because of his age.
He wants to keep doing a lot of things
that now aren't so realistic for him to do.
Let's do another.
One more?
That one weighs a ton...
and it's double.
Would you describe this era of your life as being in "semi-retirement?"
No, never! I will never retire.
I'm going to die with my boots on.
What are you saying, retire?
I will never retire.
I'm full of energy.
I'm 20 years old and I began a new journey in the life
of a hero.
Take a look, Jesse.
Thank you, Jesse. Many thanks.
With all my heart, thank you.
You've made my life happy.
After we took him for tests and we saw those first X-rays
the diagnosis was that he had fractured
a rib and part of the dorsal vertebrae of his spine.
In addition to the fracture he has on his pelvis.
I'm taking it easy, but it's driving me crazy.
Nothing scares me and nothing stops me so...
Sometimes I'm in pain, sometimes I'm not.
Yesterday, I was in tremendous pain.
Being in front of the cameras gives him energy.
Do you want more light? Less light?
It's okay how it is.
How do I look?
Not "okay." You have to check.
Just like the cameras and the filming and the lights gives him energy
his public gives him even more.
Even though he has a fracture and even though he's in pain
he's definitely going to go to the event in Miami.
He's going to be there.
-How does the song go? -What?
And you, and you, and you...
It's like, "May the skies..."
I care about you and you and you...
and no one else but you and you and you...
I care about you and you and you...
And no one else but you...
Who's coming now? Who's coming?
Right now, "Primer Impacto."
Look how privileged we are, ladies and gentlemen...
to be with Walter Mercado today.
It's been fifty years in front of the lens.
What does it mean to you, to share with your public?
It's so they get a little of the flavor...
and the fragrance, the essence of Walter Mercado.
Walter Mercado is a force of nature.
Would you return to "Primer Impacto," Walter?
I don't know because some things belong to their era.
You were an actor, a singer, a dancer...
Keep going, keep going, it's all true.
What is your message to Hispanics?
That every day we should be more united, more heart.
Diversity makes us stronger.
It's a shame that I woke up without a voice.
I don't know why, but I have many ailments.
I have sciatica too, but I told myself, "You can't ever miss Jorge Ramos!"
But then one says to oneself, "You have to be healthy first in order to get sick."
In other words, that means you're doing well?
Of course I'm well!
And with tremendous energy.
Can I say your age? 87?
Between 50 and death, and that's it.
That seems extraordinary to me.
The body, which is just a house or a cage,
you begin from earth, to return to earth.
You are just atoms and molecules, but there is inside you
something eternal, immortal.
Yes, until you are reincarnated.
Because I believe...
Not believe. I know that there is reincarnation.
Are you going to die in Puerto Rico?
Wherever they catch me.
It's that death doesn't worry me that much.
Really?
Yes, it's a topic I don't like to broach because
we all know we're going to die someday.
The day you're born they mark a document saying you'll die someday.
Is there someone? A god?
Who tells us what is going to happen?
God is in there, God is in here.
The God that is in me
salutes the God that is in you.
The Namaste.
You know I can't end the interview
without asking you to do your "with lots of love" thing.
May God bless all of you, even though he doesn't believe in God.
May God bless all of you,
today, tomorrow and always.
And may you receive from me always
a lot of peace.
But above all, what?
A lot, a lot, a lot, a lot... of love.
What do you think? Is it too big?
A little big?
Very humble.
It's very you.
Are you ready for your close-up?
Don't film my chair.
Don't shoot.
Only the upper part of the body.
This way, Walter.
It's hot. I'm telling you it's a little hot.
It's hot.
-There's no more room for people? -What?
There's no more space?
No, no more space. They're not letting more people in.
...but he's no where to be found.
The homage to Walter is about to begin.
I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen.
I feel emotional and happy.
You have to sit on the throne now.
But they have to do the dance first and all that.
But he has to be seated already.
Now? Should I get on it?
Okay, Walter, let's go.
I watched when I was a kid. I love you.
I love your vest!
-You like it? -I love it!
I follow you from Spain.
Like a good Cancer, I always listened to you.
You're so beautiful!
Thank you... I'm a Scorpio.
Bless them for me please, for the photo.
For me...
it was the most beautiful and memorable moment of my life.
Look at that!
My God...
What good publicity!
It's all beautiful, my hair. It's all beautiful.
Look at this one. How beautiful.
Look at the photo of my family when I was a child.
Oh, my God.
I don't think I'm in this one, Willie.
-Where? -Over there.
-This one is you. -No. I don't believe it.
This is Cuca, Henry, your dad and your mom.
-How depressing. -Oh, please.
How depressing.
I'm a fortune teller, but I don't like to know my future.
I just want to enjoy each moment of my life.
Look, look!
Look at that!
I was very cute, wasn't I?
Yes.
I feel that I'm in heaven right now, living the life I'm choosing to live
and with the people that I love. That's heaven for me.
I don't expect another heaven.
Heaven is today and heaven is now.
That's precious!
If you go away
God bless you all today, tomorrow, and forever.
And may you receive from me always peace, lots of peace.
But above all, receive lots and lots of what?
Love.
Thank you.
The One-Take Wonder!