The last few have been a real roller coaster for Kiko Rivera. To her controversial family disputes with her sister, Isa, and her mother, Isabel Pantoja, the latest setbacks in her health have been added, such as a stroke or the recent heart operation. her. The truth is that being the son of one of the most recognized artists in the country and ‘Paquirri’, one of the most prominent bullfighters, has placed him in the media spotlight throughout his life. He recently spoke with The Wild Project about some aspects of his personal life: from his traumatic adolescence to how he experienced his mother’s imprisonment.
The DJ has reviewed his life with Jordi Carrillo, with whom he has opened up as he has not done in public for a long time. Regarding his youth, he assured that “I have been enjoying it.” “My mother didn’t let me do anything at all until I was 18, I couldn’t go to clubs, I couldn’t go out at night, I didn’t go to the movies, if I wanted to go my mother would give me someone who was waiting for me and she had to get in the car and go home,” he expressed, about his adolescence. And being the son of two of the most recognized faces in Spain is not easy.
However, Kiko’s life changes when he comes of age. The 18 arrived coinciding “with the fact that my mother is on tour in Latin America and she didn’t have a penny and she felt like I was nothing.” “At that moment, I called a colleague and asked him for money, I told him ‘I want to become independent, today I turned 18, now I can leave, but now I don’t have money, I need you to pay me a loft for a year,'” he said. the DJ.
It was then that Chabelita’s brother began to build his own road, far from home. As he explained in his last statements, his friend found him a house in Sanchinarro. “He left me the money and I found myself in a house with practically no money to eat, alone and I began to live a brutal experience, the best experience of my life,” he revealed. After many nights of debauchery, Kiko received a call that changed her life. “A guy calls me and says ‘Kiko, do you want to work?’ and I started laughing… it opened the world of bowling to me,” she said.
From that moment on, everything started to go smoothly. His first gig was in Castellón and he won 1,500 euros, however, that figure would end up being little compared to everything he started earning. “I started charging up to 60 thousand bucks to go take photos,” Rivera said. However, problems would soon arrive. “My life changed for the worse, worse problems arose… the night, drugs, women. Vice in all its maximum splendor,” he confessed. “My head was not prepared, so… I enjoyed it, but it created a lifelong problem that I still fight against today. Now I’m fine, but I’ve had a very bad time,” he explained about his addiction. .
The increase in income led him to waste money and, as he himself revealed, he spent eight million euros. However, it was his deteriorating health that worried her most. “I could have died on one of my crazy nights, when I took ten grams of cocaine,” he expressed. However, that was long before he met Irene Rosales, his wife, whom he considers “my guardian angel.” “She has saved me… I have behaved very badly with my wife in different aspects of my life,” he acknowledged in the talk.
On the other hand, regarding family controversies, Kiko assured that “because there were family problems I have been unhappy.” The DJ revealed that she still has a good relationship with Diego Gómez, her mother’s ex-partner, and confessed how she experienced the tonadillera’s subsequent relationship with Julián Muñoz. “He would see things on TV and say ‘something is going to happen here’, but then the uncle would come talking to me and he was nice, kind, polite… my mother was happy,” he expressed.
However, everything ended up going wrong: Julián and Isabel went to prison. “Things start to appear on TV that I don’t like and I went with my mother again and one day I went out with my colleagues and that was when they took Julián.” “My mother was in love like a donkey and she didn’t see anything, and we couldn’t talk about that topic,” she expressed. “That day my mother… a hell of a drama and there I met another mother, the devastated mother who today I understand why, she saw the problem she had,” she continued saying.
Irene Rosales’ husband told Jordi Carrillo that “as a result of that she went into a tremendous depression to the point that going to see her in Cantora was an ordeal for me because I was going through a bad economic time. She prioritized the fact that I was screwed before helping her son,” she said, revealing one of the hardest episodes of her life. During those months, there was also a rumor that Isabel was going to go to prison.
“One day my mother called the family together and that day ‘mom’ did appear, she was saying goodbye” because “when I got up my mother had gone to jail.” That’s when everything fell apart and Kiko relapsed into her addiction. “The world is falling on me, I’m back on drugs again,” Kiko confessed. Some of the most sincere and devastating statements that reveal the ordeal that the DJ has suffered during some stages of his life.