This Tuesday, May 2, the International Day Against Bullying was celebrated, a date on which the media focused part of their information on one of the scourges of our country. And it is that thousands of children in Spain suffer in silence rejection, persecution, insults, threats and attacks by their peers.
Not even those who are now famous have been spared from the animosity of their peers, or even from having been victims of sexual abuse during their childhood. One of them is Fernando Tejero, the well-known protagonist of the mythical La que se avecina. For the first time, the actor publicly confessed before the SER microphones the problems he had in his childhood due to his homosexuality and revealed the sexual abuse suffered.
Fernando Tejero’s visit to the La Ventana program, presented by Carles Francino on the SER network, on such a special day as the one dedicated to the fight against bullying, brought to light some of the hardest moments in the life of the well-known actor
As explained by the Cordovan, his vocation came from childhood. In fact, at fourteen he already wanted to be an actor. “I was flying. Sometimes I imagined that I was on stage and the clients of the fishmonger were my audience. From there I rescued things for later â€, he recalled in his time as a fishmonger.
A childhood and adolescence that was also marked by the illness of an aunt of his. “I was a borrowed childâ€, he assured him about the fact that he lived with this relative instead of with her parents and siblings until the woman fell ill with cancer.
Another of the delicate moments of the interview came when Tejero claimed to have been a victim of bullying due to his sexual orientation. “I lived through a screwed up time, very screwed up, ten years of Franco, the transition, and it wasn’t me until I arrived in Madrid because I was homosexual, when I was little I had a lot of pen, and they already insulted me, they called me ‘faggot.'”
And then the actor brought to light something he had never spoken about publicly. “This is the first time I’ve told it in my life,” he assured before dropping the bomb. “They abused me. They sexually abused me, a boy older than me, â€he confessed.
“And of course, I didn’t want to accept myself either by society, by my family… And, then, I took my pen away by correcting myself. My voice is hoarse today and I stutter for not being able to express myself as I was, â€said the man from Cordoba.
