Where Is Willie Now? Details

Where Is Willie Acosta After 'Mucho Mucho Amor'?

Jul. 14 2020, Updated 3:fifty six p.m. ET

Name a greater documentary on Netflix proper now than Walter Mercado's Mucho Mucho Amor; we're going to wait.

The movie invitations us into Walter's non-public lifestyles for the primary time ever, and gives an intimate look at the life and legend of the Puerto Rican clairvoyant who used to be an icon for the Latinx community.

Through Mucho Mucho Amor, we come to satisfy Walter's assistant of 50 years, Willie Acosta, who was like family to the flowery prophet.

Keep reading to be told more about Willie Acosta and Walter Mercado's relationship, plus, what Willie is up to these days. 

Willie was Walter's proper hand, "and the left one, too."

Willie got here into Walter's life at an overly younger age, and the two became like circle of relatives. "Willie is with me always," Walter says in early moments of the documentary, adding that he has been serving to the megastar with the whole lot almost since his career began to take off. 

"I assist Walter in everything that he needs," Willie explains, which contains picking clothes, caring for his canine, Runo, feeding him, shopping with him, protective him "from everything," and conserving him company. 

"He knows everything," Walter chuckles. "All of my secrets."

The assistant additionally knows Walter's whole lifestyles story and is able to relay it on digicam, down to the precise dates on which his programs first aired, a testomony to their skilled and personal bond.

Were Willie Acosta and Walter Mercado fanatics?

"The Latino community was quite homophobic, especially [in the] '70s, '80s, I mean, still nowadays," LGBTQ activist Karlo Karlo says in the movie in regards to the myriad rumors that circulated for years about Walter's sexuality.

Even Willie describes Walter's energy as very female. "He's an androgyne," he explains to manufacturers at one point. "He looks like a woman. Sometimes, he looks like a man."

But the rumor mill never Walter, who explains that he were misgendered since he was a child speaking on the phone, and not let exterior perceptions get in his manner.

"Walter always takes a pill called an I-don't-care pill," Willie poignantly provides. "And I started drinking that pill, too."

How would Walter define his sexuality? It's an issue that has arise many times in interviews, though the Puerto Rican big name never at once addressed it. There's a reason why, he reveals.

"Because I have sexuality with the wind, with the flowers in the garden, with all the beautiful display of nature," he says in a second of pure poetry. "I don't need a person to make me happy, to have an orgasmic experience, no."

"I have sex with life," he says. "I have sex with everything, with clothes, with beauty."

While it is easy to take a position that there would possibly had been a sexual part to Willie and Walter's dating, the previous clears that up within the documentary, as well.

"People think that I'm his lover," he clarifies at one level, surrounding the discussion of Walter's id and sexuality. "I don't know what they think. They think I have a relation with him. And my relation with Walter is a very family relation. I have never touched Walter with a finger. Never in my life."

Where is Willie Acosta now?

We managed to search out Willie on Facebook and admit were moved to tears to look that he rarely posts any updates, and that when he does, he speaks of his liked Walter and what kind of he misses his pal.

Around the time of his demise, Willie posted an excessively shifting tribute, bringing up the way it was once the honour of his lifestyles to paintings for Walter for half a century, including that if given the chance to reincarnate and do it again, he would rise to the instance gladly.

Most just lately, on March 9, which would have been Walter's birthday, Willie logged on to Facebook for any other touching submit about his late friend.

Willie continues to live in San Juan, where he was once born, and we want him mucho, mucho amor.

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