In an interview for The World, Kiko Matamoros confessed to having been a victim of abuse by the friars of the Hermano Corazonista school in Madrid, where he studied as a child. Until now, the collaborator of Not even if we were Shh He had not given more information on the matter, or that had been the case until now.
on the podcast Magazine Boythe television broadcaster has spoken with maximum sincerity about the delicate subject. “I don’t like many things I said, not because they weren’t true, but because I caused harm to third parties, whom I love very much,” he began to explain, visibly moved.
“In the end, we also have to be aware that life puts us in a moment, time, space where we are not owners of our actions. I’m talking to you about Spain in the 60s, in the midst of Franco’s regime and more things. There was a concept of authority that has nothing to do with what exists now“, he continued narrating.
Thus, with harshness, the television presenter has recounted how he came to suffer “a lot” of both physical and psychological abuse. Furthermore, he explained the reason for hiding until now: “I did it when it was decided that the melon of sexual abuse in childhood had to be opened for once. and in schools by the head belonging to the Catholic Church”.
“This task is entrusted to the Ombudsman and Mr. Gabilondo was at the school where I, Brother Corazonista, was, and he experienced first-hand, whatever he says, all the abuses that were experienced in that center. So, I said: ‘the fox taking care of the chickens’ and they gave me the opportunity to write about that topic and I was very pleased,” he highlighted.
And, as he has stated, the abuse he experienced not only affected him at the time he suffered it: “Condition your behavior with respect to everything“Not only sexually, it is a psychological problem that conditions your personality.”
“Fortunately, the biggest problem I had was some touching from which I came out unscathed. I do not know how to assess to what extent it may have caused me to reject certain attitudes, I don’t think I can know either. It has conditioned my personality, even my sexuality. And my happiness too, for a time I lived in torment. We are talking from 7 to 12 years old,” he concluded.