Pelayo Díaz has experienced one of the hardest situations of his life. The stylist has suffered a homophobic attack in Madrid, as he revealed to Socialité this Saturday. The television presenter was returning from Paris Fashion Week when an individual began to insult him by shouting “fucking faggot”. But that’s not all, since the man also tried to attack him. The information has been brought to light by María Verdoy’s program, which has been able to speak with the affected person.
The images of this moment have been shown by the Telecinco program. According to the victim herself, the aggressor was a taxi driver who, after hearing him talk to his boyfriend, began to scold him. “My boyfriend called me on the phone, and I saw that he was already looking at me in the rearview mirror. Suddenly he looks at me and says: ‘Shitty faggot,'” explains the stylist.
As the television show explains, that is when the taxi driver looks for an excuse to start an argument with him. Apparently, he didn’t let her pay by card. “He tells me, you’ll have money, right? Because you can’t pay with a card,” he remembers. “He told me ‘what do you think, I’m going to take you for free, you fucking faggot?'” Pelayo revealed, enraged. That’s when Díaz decides to get out of the car, very nervous about the situation he found himself in.
“I run out of the taxi, I take out my suitcase and at that moment he grabs me by the neck, throws me to the ground and starts ‘fucking faggot, you’re going to find out,'” the stylist begins explaining. That’s when a woman made things more difficult for him. “The lady goes and puts my suitcase inside the taxi, I felt like I was sentenced,” she explained. At that moment, he is scared because he feels alone.
The stylist believes that the situation would have worsened if it had not been for the appearance of a young woman. “When she was raising her hand at me and calling me a faggot, a girl appears from behind,” he continued to explain. “She told him: ‘Hey, hey, stop, I don’t know what, nothing about this,'” he remembers. That girl ends up becoming his guardian angel and Pelayo pays the taxi driver with his card, who turned out to have lied, since he did have a dataphone.
“She had to take me, because I was having a total anxiety crisis. I thought that I was going to react differently if one day I suffered a homophobic attack like this and you actually freeze,” he reflects to Socialité. “You don’t know how to react,” she said. “Thank goodness I have witnesses, the complaint has been filed and I am not going to let this person go unpunished,” she said.
