Lucía Rivera has been honest as never before in her recently published book Nothing is what it seems. In her memoirs, the daughter of Blanca Romero and Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez recounts the most difficult chapters of her life and her coexistence with her family, always under the watchful eye of the press. Sometimes excessive, she assures the young woman.
Rivera remembers his birth, in which he was about to die. He also talks about a difficult school stage, in which he went through eleven different schools. In the pages, he recalls how he entered the world of fashion, “in which nothing is what it seems and in which danger lurks in every corner.” In addition, he talks about his mental health problems or the relationships he had with toxic people.
The model recounts in one of her chapters the sexual harassment she experienced. It was her gardener who tried to abuse her, according to what she recounts in the penultimate chapter of the book, Deconstruction.
The daughter of Blanca Romero and Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez openly recounts that traumatic experience, when the model was at the house of a boy with whom she was starting a relationship, although she did not reveal his name. She refers to him as Q. The young woman explains that she was in bed and noticed someone coming into the room. She thought it was him, but she was wrong.
He got into bed and was completely naked. He approached the model and hugged her. The next thing he tried was to kiss her. When he was about to, he opened his eyes and found that he was her gardener, “a man who must have been about fifty years old,” according to him in his book Nothing is what it seems.
Rivera assures that he was in shock. “I feel like I’m paralyzed and the only phrase that comes to mind is: ‘She’s going to rape you, don’t do anything.’ I don’t want to get aggressive or start a struggle with him, because I know he will win, and he may even be turned on by my resistance. Q. does not show signs of life and I just want to feel safe, ”she explains in another fragment of the chapter.
The young woman had to deal with this man for a long time. She had no choice but to return to her friend’s house in the gardener’s car. “My heart goes a thousand per hour and, with his voice always in the background, I look out the window to see if I recognize the buildings with Google Maps activated and checking the route. I keep my cell phone hidden. I can only think: ‘Depraved fucking’”, she continues.
It was a long time before he dared to tell it. She carried him in silence, so that the gardener would not lose his work, Rivera acknowledges, despite the bad experience he had that day.
