The 85-year-old singer and actress left her home to be safer.
“What made me go there… I have been living alone since Varela Silva [marido] he died [em 1995]. My daughter does not live in Portugal and my son is a university professor and has three children. They were afraid something would happen to me at home alone, and I stayed there. He explained: “So the best thing for me was to be in a place that would accompany me, with a doctor nearby.”
Although she admits she is settled in Casa do Artista, Simone de Oliveira admits she “misses” her home in central Lisbon.
“I haven’t gone back there yet. I don’t know if it would be good for me to go there. I don’t know if it would be good for my soul. When I feel like it, and I have the keys with me, I will go. But I don’t know.”
“What made me go there… I have been living alone since Varela Silva [marido] he died [em 1995]. My daughter does not live in Portugal and my son is a university professor and has three children.

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