Carmen Campuzano

Carmen Campuzano (born December 7 1970 as Maria del Carmen Campuzano) is a Mexican actress and former fashion model.

Biography

Campuzano met Mario Carballido while she was still a struggling model. The pair got married, but their relationship did not last. She had twin girls with Carballido, and after her divorce, she met and befriended Dominican-born Mexican actor Andrés García.

Campuzano had her first opportunity to act in 2000, when she participated alongside Osvaldo Rios, among others, in a telenovela. Her acting career suffered after 2000, however.

Campuzano and García eventually became romantically involved. At some point after gaining celebrity, Campuzano allegedly began to use drugs, a rumor that she has neither admitted nor denied. García and Campuzano broke up, but they remained on amicable terms.

Carmen Campuzano accused her former husband, Carballido, of emotionally abandoning their daughters in 2004, soon after Carballido's second wife also became pregnant. This would become the beginning of many controversies in which Campuzano would become involved.

Campuzano apparently became so addicted to drugs that her friend and former boyfriend García stepped in and had her interned in a rehabilitation center. On August 7, 2005, soon after Campuzano had left the rehabilitation clinic, she was spotted on the roof of her friend Sandra's home. Exactly what happened at that moment has been debated; witnesses said that Campuzano, in an apparent panic attack, began to scream for help and that someone wanted to kill her, while she stood naked on her friend's roof. Her friend Sandra did not deny the fact that Campuzano went to her house's roof and began screaming, but she alleges that Campuzano was not naked, and that she only took her clothes off inside Sandra's house, claiming she was not able to breathe. Sandra did say that she was hurt by her friend as she tried to bring Campuzano inside her home.

Campuzano was taken to a nearby hospital by paramedics who were waiting outside her friend's house as her dramatic situation unfolded. When she was being taken to an ambulance, television cameramen filmed Campuzano, who sported a rather uncharacteristic (for her) short hair look. This gave some credibility to claims that she made shortly afterward that she had been abused, both physically and sexually, at the rehabilitation center she attended.

Carmen Campuzano was diagnosed as having a cocaine overdose when she arrived at the hospital, which, according to doctors, could have triggered suicidal thoughts in the patient.

After recuperating, Campuzano was referred to a mental institution.

She also had an accident in which a taxi ran over her, almost killing her. In addition, she has had several operations on her face. She also had an accident in September 2002 where one of her fingers had to be inserted back and her right arm had to be reconstructed. In March 2004 she had an argument with a man putting a lock in one of her car wheels because she was parking illegally. When he backed off he was run over by a security van.

Awards

*"Supermodel of the World" in 1993
*"Silver Star" 1995