"There was a lot of smoke, people screaming...": David Bustamante remembers his biggest scare of his life

After the visit of Belén Rueda and Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, El Hormiguero continued to receive guests, with David Bustamante being the star on Tuesday.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
11 April 2023 Tuesday 14:51
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"There was a lot of smoke, people screaming...": David Bustamante remembers his biggest scare of his life

After the visit of Belén Rueda and Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, El Hormiguero continued to receive guests, with David Bustamante being the star on Tuesday. The singer went to promote the musical Ghost, in which he is the protagonist, but he also had time to remember the huge scare he experienced just a few weeks ago in Fallas.

The complicity of the Cantabrian with Pablo Motos made him talk about many topics, although he emphasized the tour of the musical based on the mythical film, which will take him to Madrid. He will return to the capital from April 21 to May 28 for a huge farewell that can be experienced at the Umusic Hotel Teatro Albéniz.

One of the artist's confessions was the greatest fear of his life, which causes him some problems when bathing on the beach. "The sea scares me, especially the dark when you can't see anything in the background, it terrifies me," he confessed before the cameras of the Antena 3 program.

The reason for this thalassophobia, as this disease is called, is most curious: "It is that the movie Jaws did a lot of damage." Despite the fact that it might seem like a joke, Bustamante wanted to make it clear that it was true: "I have a house near the sea and I usually go out with the paddle surf board, but if I fall, I get on it right away because later, I even have nightmares."

Another of the anecdotes that he did not hesitate to tell was the one that he lived on stage in Zaragoza. His role as an actor, even if it is in a musical, is very different from that of concerts, where he can speak to the audience and throw greetings, something that his fans don't seem to have fully understood.

"My audience is used to seeing me on stage and interacting with me, but in this, of course, it is different. Well, I entered the scene and a spectator, Encarna, grabbed my arm in the corridor and did not let go... and also did not could look as she expected...", he said between laughs. To get out of the situation, she had to help an usher.

Lastly, David Bustamante did not hesitate to remember the biggest scare of his life, which he experienced just a few weeks ago on his tour of Valencia. In order to be close to the theater where he was performing, he decided to stay in a central hotel: "We returned for the three weeks of Fallas. What happened? I had never experienced Fallas so closely. The Olympia Theater is just behind the Town Hall square ".

"I didn't know that every day at two in the afternoon there is a 'mascletá' in which 100 kilos of gunpowder explode," he recalled to the laughter of the audience. "About twelve and at one more or less I take a nap. So I decided to take a nap as always and at about two in the afternoon the bed began to shake, the floor...", said the guest of El Hormiguero .

This noise caught him "dead asleep, it caught me by surprise, I opened the window, I saw people screaming and a lot of smoke and I didn't know what was happening." Although he thought for a moment that he was having a fit, he soon remembered that he was in the middle of parties and that he had to "find a more secluded hotel".