Dec 02, 2020 at 5:50 pm

Latin Superstar Gloria Estefan Reveals She Had Coronavirus & Is Now Recovering

Gloria Estefan is the latest celebrity to reveal that she tested positive for coronavirus last month.

The 63-year-old singer opened up in an Instagram video about her diagnosis and her recovery.

“In the past few weeks, I have been one of the victims of COVID,” Gloria shared with her fans. “The reason I’m sharing this is that I want you to know how highly contagious this is — I wear my mask everywhere. I went to a restaurant outdoors with some family — three, four of us — and everybody was negative. We wore masks all the way to the table.”

She continued on, saying that “when we left, the only thing that I can imagine happened is that someone came up to me when I was eating and tapped me on the shoulder. They were very close, they had no mask and they were telling me beautiful things. But that’s the only thing that I have done outside of my enclosure here.”

Just a few weeks after that, Gloria found out that she had next to no taste or smell, which is a common symptom with COVID-19.

“My poor chef was the victim of me telling her that the chicken that she made me tasted like nothing,” she shared. “I still didn’t realize it ’till the next day when my breakfast tasted like nothing and then I couldn’t smell [my soap]. Then I started freaking out a little bit like we all have been because the fear is the biggest part of this whole thing.”

Gloria added, “I was very lucky. But I just wanted to share with you the fact that I was in quarantine and the one day I went out and met with one person that was not wearing a mask — I even held my breath, quite honestly, through their talk — something must have happened.”

Shortly after, she went into isolation.

“I locked myself away on the second floor of my house, didn’t let anybody up for two weeks, I can tell you that,” she says. “Fortunately, I’m very lucky that the only symptoms that I had were the loss of smell and taste and a little bit of a cough. I can’t say that I felt bad … my immune system is always firing on all pistons.”