The trial over the death of Argentine football superstar Diego Maradona continued on Tuesday, with the testimony of Giannina, Maradona’s second daughter with his longtime wife Claudia Villafañe.

Maradona’s daughter spoke for over five hours about her father’s final days, taking questions from the prosecution and the defendants’ lawyers.

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“My dad was lost in time and space; he didn’t know where he was,” she said about the last days of Maradona’s life. “He was struggling to walk, interact, and connect with people. When I asked, they told me it was due to the pills or the alcohol that he was up and down, but he looked even worse.”

Giannina recalled that her son approached Maradona on his 60th birthday — October 30, 2020, less than a month before his death — with a picture of the two, but the former star was unable to recognize himself in it.

Later that day, Maradona made his last public appearance, part of the celebrations as football kicked off again due to the partial loosening of Covid-19 restrictions. At the time, Maradona looked lost and confused, and struggled to move as two people........

© Buenos Aires Herald