DALLAS " Comedian Cristela Alonzo was once a young girl in Hidalgo County, living in abject poverty. Her family squatted for years in an abandoned diner. In the early aughts, as a 20-something, she moved to the Dallas area to be a caregiver for both her sister's kids and her mother, who had fallen ill. When her mom died in 2002, she turned to comedy to cope with the loss. One short-lived TV ...
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:15PM on June 12, 2025