Cayetana Guillén Cuervo surprised everyone and everyone by confessing one of the greatest burdens she has had to endure since she was just a child. The actress, 54, presents a new documentary, Mapa a Pandataria, in which she confesses like never before and recounts some of the darkest episodes of her life: she was a victim of sexual abuse when she was only six years.
An attack that has marked him for life and that he has kept a secret until now, but that he has decided to confess before the premiere of the documentary. An important decision that his brother, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, could only applaud.
The actor did not want to give further details about the unpleasant event, but he did want to send a message to his sister, whom he supports unconditionally for having taken the step in “a very brave act.” The actor believes, however, that this revelation “must be left for the context in which he wanted to tell it.”
Cayetana Guillén Cuervo confessed that the attack had marked her for life, with “that secret that you live with” being too heavy and that “she had never talked about it with anyone.” The actress revealed that the event occurred when she was six years old, and it had been “a very strong attack” that still caused her trauma.
“I wasn’t going to tell it in the documentary, but when I heard my colleagues’ statements, I said: ‘You have to tell it.’ I tell it because I want to be fair to my colleagues, who tell all the shit they have overcome to be who they are. From each ten women, nine have suffered sexual assault: it is part of our emotional map,” denounces the actress.
With her words, the president of the Academy of Performing Arts wants to break her silence to help other women be brave and raise their voices to denounce what they have suffered in order to heal once and for all.
“All the members of this cast have achieved their dream and have overcome their own story. And a community is already beginning to be generated that anyone who has suffered contempt, rejection, bullying, ghosting joins… We have all felt rejection and been ‘pandatarios’ at some point,” explains the actress.
On February 1 it premieres on the culture and science platform Caixaforum, and then, on February 14, it will be turned into a show at the Teatros del Canal de Madis. “We tell our wounds to serve as an example: you can get up and continue and smile and do what you like in life and reach very high.”
