This Sunday, La Roca, the program presented by Nuria Roca on La Sexta, received Lucía Rivera, model and daughter of Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez and Blanca Romero, as a guest, after the publication of her memoir Nothing is what it seems.
In it, the young woman recounts the moments that have marked her life and one of them is having been a victim of gender violence at the hands of two of her ex-partners. In fact, during the interview in La Sexta, Rivera not only claimed to have suffered physical and psychological abuse in a harsh account of the events, but also emphasized that it is "something general" in his environment. Machismo among young people has increased.
In recent years, complaints of gender violence have grown by 70% among young people, a reality that La Roca wanted to discuss this Sunday in a gathering where a victim of abuse also participated. In this case, a famous model, daughter of Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez and Blanca Romero, who spoke openly about the physical and psychological abuse she suffered at the hands of two ex-boyfriends.
So much so that Lucía assured that ill-treatment could come in multiple ways, physical or psychological. And she recounted: “He punished me by leaving, or cheating on me, with infidelity. It was like, if I did something, he would answer me that way. Episodes where, on occasion, there was also physical violence against her.
Nuria Roca wanted to know, at this point, what do you say to those friends who are also going through the same thing and who are still there. “I tell them that they are being mistreated,” she explained. "The word abuse is very scary, but it exists," the model stated without hesitation. And it is that when the word "abuse" is heard, she looks the other way, but "this exists and this is so."
"And what do they answer you?" asked Gonzalo Miro, present at the gathering. “Oh, no, poor thing, he is very good, he is changing, he loves me a lot…”, he said. “And when they defend themselves, they believe that they are the bad guys. In addition, they do not let them come with me to Madrid ”, lamented the model.
So much so that Lucía Rivera has become "the bad guy" for many of her friends' couples because she is the one who tells them the reality of what they are experiencing, that they are battered women. So much so that this sexist violence "is something general in my environment, very majority."
And, then, she dropped a bombshell that left those present speechless: "In fact, I don't have any friend who hasn't gone through this." A statement that alarmed Nuria Roca. And she continued: "Perhaps we are fewer due to physical abuse, but all of them have experienced psychological abuse."
And she returned to influence the role that she represents for her friends: "I am a bit of the homing pigeon." And also for the abusers: “I am like their enemy, who make sure to isolate you a lot. I am the bad one of many couples of my friends.
