The artist even signed up for the Unified Health System (SUS) transplant list, but an exam revealed compatibility of the organ on the part of his wife, who agreed to donate
Actor Jackson Antunes, 65, spoke about recovering from a kidney transplant donated by his own wife, Cristiana Britto, in an interview with Fantástico, on TV Globo, this Sunday (8). “It is a confirmation of full love. From the moment I was transplanted and Cris, four days later, came to visit me, I looked at her differently. It was a different light. I gradually felt a change, a strangeness, and then a kind of adaptation that not only occurred physically, but also spiritually”, he said.
A Surgery was performed on December 22, 2025. In the remake of the soap opera Renascer in 2024, in which he was in the cast, Antunes had to divide the recording routine with hemodialysis sessions. The identification of kidney problems began when the artist was still young. In the 1990s, at the age of 33, he discovered after bouts of thrombosis that he only had one kidney.
Em 2018, the artist was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and began to face problems with his only kidney, which required the start of a series of difficult treatments. Jackson Antunes even registered on the transplant list of the Unified Health System (SUS)but an examination revealed compatibility of the organ on the part of his wife, who agreed to donate.
“The real word is gratitude. I only wanted one thing in my life. I wanted to see a sunset, and see my son’s album ready”, continued the actor. Antunes also made a reflection, in good humor: “God makes two types of people: the one who spends his entire life without getting sick, gets sick once and goes to the ‘land of feet together’; and the other ‘caboclo’ who gets sick every day, and God is so perfect, that the ‘goat’ comes to the brink of death and escapes. I am that type of person.”
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