Rodolfo Castanaresbetter known as “Rodo”, Nacho’s father, a Big Brother participant, was interviewed live THEY (America, at 20) and there, with total sincerity, He told how it was for him the situation of having fallen in love with a man and therefore, deciding to separate from the mother of his sonthe woman with whom he had built “a family like the one he had always dreamed of”.
Mariana, Nacho’s mother, recently passed away and, according to her ex-husband, after the first storm of divorce, both had managed to have an excellent relationship as ex-partner and parents of a child.
But before arriving at that advantageous situation for them and for their son, when Rodo fell in love with a man in 2003, in Spain, where they lived at the time, and decided to separate, nothing was easy.
“I felt very guilty, because with Mariana I had put together my perfect model family.. She also knew that after the divorce she would come to live in Buenos Aires, because she had never liked Madrid; I was only there because I had business there. And we had a child in common…”.
That common son, Nacho, according to Rodo, was the fulfillment of a very great desire. “I met Mariana when I was 17 and since then I wanted to have a child with her. Years later, we had it”.
Rodo, Nacho’s father: “I’ve always been a bit strange”
Rodolfo, who is a hairdresser and actor, recalled that in 2003, when he divorced, society was not what it is today as regards homosexual couples. For example, he commented that since Nacho lived six months in Spain with him and the other half with his mother in Argentina, they explained the situation in kindergarten and that at first the teachers didn’t want them to make it public that Rodolfo lived with a man.
“It was all difficult, because there was still a big taboo. I was guilty of falling in love with a man “, She said.
When asked if Mariana was taken by surprise, Rodolfo said no. “He suspected it. He realized I was dating menbecause I’ve always been a bit ‘strange'”, he said. And he added: “In fact we met at the Bunker, a bowling alley where you could breathe freedom”.
In THEYthey aired Nacho’s video In Big Brother, she burst into tears when she spoke of her mother’s death. “In 15 days he fell ill and died – the player told his reality companions at the beginning of the coexistence -. I was a boy and it was the first time that a relative of mine died… And that relative was my mother”. ! He said and started crying, heartbroken.
“I stayed with my grandmother,” continued Nacho, moved, “and with a father present, but who lived abroad. My frustration was that I had been putting off the things I wanted to do with my mom.. But she will always be with me, she always accompanies me; even if she’s not physically there, she accompanies me.”
“What happened to you when you saw this?” Ángel De Brito asked Rodo. “I collapsed. It was awful,” he admitted.
“When Nacho’s mother died, all we (he, his ex-partner and Nacho’s grandmother) did was try to give him love and show him that life is always about moving forward. And that move forward by accepting what happens to you, forgiving the person in front of you, forgiving you and moving on“.
“My ex mother-in-law isn’t my ex mother-in-law, she’s my mother. And to give you an idea, she went on holiday with my ex-partner, alone », exemplified Rodo, to demonstrate what kind of ties can be established between people when there is affection and good intentions.
Rodolfo Castañares: “Getting out of alcoholism is very complicated”
When he was at the reality show hosted by Santiago Del Moro, in a conversation with La Tora, Rodolfo had talked about how difficult it was for him to have an alcoholic mother and that he himself had to make an effort not to fall into the same addiction that she
“How do you get out of alcoholism?“, they wanted to know in THEY. “It’s very difficult to go out. In fact, my mother died drunk,” Rodo replied. As a son, I experienced my mother’s alcoholism very badly. But when you heal, you understand that your mother has a disease.”
“I wanted to go and live in Spain because I couldn’t take it anymore,” continued Alcoholics Anonymous, but left after three days.
“At one point in Spain my friend Juan sat me down and showed me that I was on the same path as my mother in relation to alcohol. I went through therapy and managed to not become an alcoholic. You have to ask help but you have to want to do it”.
“My mother did what she could and I had a few years in which I hated her, but then I understood the situation of her illness,” concluded Rodolfo.
Source: Clarin
