Kahlo’s final hours
Frida Kahlo’s grandson has cast new light on her final days, revealing that her husband, the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, may have “helped her” to end her own life “in a last act of love”, says Vanessa Thorpe in The Observer. Speaking to the BBC for a documentary about Kahlo, Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, an art journalist, reveals a long-held suspicion in his family that Diego facilitated some form of assisted suicide. At the time of her death, aged 47, in 1954 (officially from a pulmonary embolism), Kahlo was dependent on drugs and alcohol and riven by illnesses that had “plagued” her throughout her life. “If your companion of life says, ‘I’m tired, I really want to go now, help me’ – well, maybe you try,” said…
