Survivors 2023: No Man’s Land had a new Bridge of Emotions this Tuesday, in which the contestants face the episodes, as steps, of their lives. In this case, it was Alma Bollo who starred in several hard moments live, mainly when remembering her father Chiquetete from her.
Let’s remember that the young woman is the daughter of the singer and Raquel Bollo, the latter a victim of ill-treatment with several convictions against Isabel Pantoja’s cousin. “My father was not up to it,” Alma wanted to make clear, who completely broke down when talking about how her childhood was.
Childhood, loneliness, guilt, forgiveness and a blank step. These are the steps that Alma Bollo encountered during her crusade across the Bridge of Emotions, a very tough journey in which Laura Madrueño, the co-host of Survivors 2023, was waiting for her on the other side.
“You trust me,” the journalist told him before beginning. “A lot, a lot,” Raquel Bollo’s daughter assured him, who, on her first step, came across the word “childhood.” A moment in her life that she remembers with three fundamental pillars: her mother, her grandfather and her grandmother. “Despite all the adversities, I have never been an unhappy child, I have been very happy, I have had everything I wanted and more, they have fought for me as much as they could and more,” she explained.
In fact, the contestant gave the key to being the woman she is today: “A childhood that everyone would like, I have laughed, I have fought, they have let me be, they have always let me be. Wonderful, surrounded by love.” However, that childhood was also marked by a manifest feeling, “loneliness”, the next step on the bridge.
“As I was growing up, already in adolescence, I take a step to introduce myself into solitude. I was becoming more aware of the things that were missing in my life, for example, a father figure. You can’t overcome that loneliness, you learn to live with it, â€he recounted. Here she Alma she revealed an episode of pregnancy, in which she felt alone and misunderstood.
As she put each episode of her life on the table, the young woman tried to hold back her tears and catch her breath in each of her explanations. A cry that came with the “guilt”. Here, Alma confessed “guilt is something that has tormented me a lot. I don’t consider myself a bad person. but I have been very complicated. My adolescence has not been easy. I have made my grandparents suffer a lot with my answers, disobedience… Thank goodness I was a good studentâ€.
“I have made my mother suffer a lot and I have made her feel very guilty. My mother spent a lot of time away from home working to give us the best and I told her that she didn’t even know me, that she hadn’t even raised us. She didn’t deserve it. I am a mother and I haven’t seen my daughter for three months to give her the best â€, she affirmed.
At this moment, when the step of “forgiveness” was reached, Alma took the opportunity to apologize for all of this: “I apologize to her, to my grandparents, to my brother. To everyone I have crushed, I have not been able to live up to it in many situations. They deserve the biggest forgiveness in the world.”
And, then, his father, Chiquetete, the one who caused the greatest possible pain to his mother, Raquel Bollo, due to that ill-treatment, came to light. “I can’t forgive that person. I can’t forgive what he put my mother through, what he put my brother through, or what he did to me. I can’t forgive him for abandoning me, for never having an explanation. It is something that I cannot forgive and it torments me a lot. I have to let it flow and forgiveness come when my heart believes it so.
To finish and before reaching Laura Madrueño to melt into a warm hug, Alma stepped on one last step, which was blank. A step that she wanted to dedicate to herself, but also “to all the people who have found themselves in my situation”.
“I dedicate it to myself as a fighter. I am a fighter in everything, in my studies, in my life, with my daughter… I hope that is what is being seen of me, how brave I am. I try and I don’t give up, I keep fighting, that is the motto of life that my grandparents and my mother have always taught me â€, she concluded.
