Eduardo Yañez

The past six months have seen 64-year-old Mexican actor Eduardo Yáñez battle to regain his health. Now that he's feeling better, the legendary soap opera actor took to social media to discuss the tremors in his hands that sparked rumors he had Parkinson's disease.

Reports that the iconic artist had severe neurological problems surfaced in November 2024, after witnesses reported seeing his hands shaking. The claims were initially thought to be false, but a video published by journalist Jorge Carvajal showed him making involuntary movements with his hands.

Later, Yáñez himself confessed that it was true.

In fact, the tremors were so persistent that they led him to seek medical advice from his family doctor, who referred him to a neurologist and explained it this way:

"Fortunately, the doctor told me it was a reaction caused by the antidepressant medication I take to combat depression, and I had that reaction. The truth is, I did. It lasted a couple of weeks until I went to see the neurologist, and he took me off most of my medications. He left me on just one. They ran all kinds of tests on me, and I came out without Parkinson's disease.
To all those who are happy about this news, as it was about me, I thank you. I wish you the best in the world because it's really bad when you're going through something like this and you don't know what's wrong with you.

After months of focusing on solving the problem, Yáñez is now better, and to prove it, he showed off his stable hands and made an obscene gesture to those who, he said, wished he had the neurological and degenerative disease.

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The health of Eduardo Yañez

The actor, who has starred in iconic soap operas such as "Destilando Amor," "Fuego en la Sangre," "Corazón Salvaje," and, more recently, "Juego de Mentiras" and "Golpe de Suerte," has been very open about his health issues, including psychological and psychiatric ones.

The psychiatric treatment that led to the tremors was designed to respond to severe depression, exacerbated by problems with his estranged only son and constant issues with the press.