“He told me that he wanted to have a carnival.”
Child actress Millena Brandão has died at age 11 following a mysterious illness.
The rising star, best known for her role in the Netflix series “Sintonia,” had been treated at three different hospitals for more than a week before being confirmed brain dead on May 2.
Her mother, Thays Brandão, has since questioned the conduct of her daughter’s medical care in an interview with Brazilian news outlet G1.
RELATED: Sherri Papini tells her side of her alleged kidnapping story in new documentary
“The doctors still haven’t said what really happened to my daughter and what killed her,” her mother said — describing her daughter’s cause of death as a “question mark.”
Thays Brandão and her husband, Luiz Brandão, are also parents to a 2-year-old girl.
In her G1 interview, published May 5, Thays Brandão gave a day-by-day breakdown of how her daughter went from living a normal life to being sent from one hospital to the next as her condition worsened.
"She had a headache, but she could walk and talk,” she said of her daughter’s symptoms on April 24.
“The doctor said it was dengue fever, but he didn't do any tests. He told us to take her back home and give her dipyrone," Thays Brandão recalled of her initial trip to the General Hospital of Pedreira.
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), dipyrone “is a nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drug used in some countries to treat pain” and is often used to treat migraines, colic and cancer.
Two days later, Millena Brandão was parading at an event when she started complaining of leg pain — ultimately making it “impossible” to walk, according to the actress’s mother.
The family returned to the Pedreira Hospital, but blood tests showed no changes and doctors, yet again, sent Millena Brandão home to rest.
The actress continued to experience severe headaches, drowsiness and a lack of appetite the following day while at church before returning home.
Millena Brandão was sent to a different hospital after condition worsened
On April 28, Millena Brandão managed to eat before fainting in her bathroom at home.
"We ran to UPA Maria Antonieta,” her mother told G1. “We arrived with her unconscious in my husband's arms. Then, she opened her eyes and regained consciousness.”
Doctors ruled out dengue, COVID and H1N1 before diagnosing her with a urinary tract infection (UTI).
At one point, the pain was so bad that Millena Brandão “put her hand on her head and screamed in pain,” per her mother — who criticized doctors for mocking her daughter’s condition.
“She told her not to scream, that the pain wouldn’t go away like that,” Thays Brandão said.
On April 29, Millena Brandão suffered her first cardiac arrest, per Entertainment Weekly.
“Her lip turned purple. Then they resuscitated her and intubated her. From that day on, she never woke up again,” Thays Brandão added.
After being sent to the Grajaú General Hospital, doctors did a CT scan and found a mass in Millena Brandão’s brain roughly five centimeters in size.
But since there wasn’t a neurologist available, doctors were unable to identify whether the mass was a cyst, tumor, edema or clot.
Thays Brandão criticizes hospital for not helping daughter sooner
Millena Brandão went on to suffer 13 cardiac arrests in total over the next few days, including one day when she had seven respiratory arrests.
Instead of transferring her to a hospital with a neurologist, doctors decided to “wait to see if she stabilized” due to the risk of transporting her.
According to her mother, Millena Brandão remained unconscious until May 2, when doctors confirmed that she was brain dead.
“They said they would wait for her heart to stop beating before turning off the machines," Thays Brandão explained, per the New York Post.
"I said that if we were to let her little heart stop beating on its own, we would suffer more, and so would she,” she continued. “And we asked for the machines to be turned off."
On May 3, Thays Brandão took to Instagram to share an “open letter” tribute for her daughter.
“The memories we spent together will remain in my memory and I'll never forget your joy that was contagious to everyone around you,” she wrote in the caption, which was translated from Spanish.
“You were the light in our lives and I know that from up there you'll continue to watch over us and light up our lives,” she added, per People.
ALSO ON MOD MOMS CLUB: Medical Influencer reveals her 1-year-old daughter had died, weeks after announcing pregnancy
In addition to her role in “Sintonia,” Millena Brandão starred in numerous soap operas and had recently celebrated the beginning of her career at Silvio Santos' channel, per G1.
