surprised Gerard Romano recounting something that happened to him when he was a child. He was in the show Carmen Barbieri.
“I didn’t tell it as a boy, but I told it a few years ago, I’m cured and I can talk about everything without problems. I did a deconstruction process, a word invented by a French philosopher, in which he talks about everything that makes up our personality. Later, you can dismantle why we are the way we are, why we handle ourselves the way we handle ourselves,” he began by saying. Gerard Romanoconcerning an episode of abuse suffered in childhood.
In an interview with Carmen Barbieri in the program very morningthe actor of 76 years old said when he had 12 years suffered a series of problems which led to a long silence.
“The important thing is to educate and educate the children, not to have an obscure, impenetrable question. The body is something forbidden, a taboo, It cannot be touched, everything is sin. And then you’re wrapped up in a sea of doubt when you might have the answers sooner, and when the unwanted moment comes, with an abuser, knowing where you stand, what’s right and what’s wrong, and how to react,” he said .
And he continued: “When a guy gropes you without your consent in a bus, there is no law there, there is no sign that says: ‘Don’t worry, this is the law, the man who is touching your member is wrong.’ But after that, who do you tell the story to?”
When asked how the matter worked or if he had spoken to his family about it, Romano said he didn’t exactly remember to assure right away: “No, I don’t think I said that. When I was able to tell, I didn’t care anymore, I was already an adult”.
What happened?
But what happened, Gerardo? “I was little. He came to pick me up from school. I went out with a little friend named Marcelo; I looked and it was on the opposite sidewalk. He greeted me with a subtle nod and I started walking and he started following me. At that time he took the trolley bus to Santa Fe and Austria. I would be 12 or 13 years old.
The attacker He disappeared, but it didn’t take long to come back. “Unfortunately, the next day the same thing happened again. He reappeared and followed me. He walked through Libertad to Santa Fe, through Santa Fe to Paraná and through Paraná to Arenales. I returned through Arenales to downtown, walking at full speed to run away, so that he would lose sight of me. Until I start sweating, shaking, scared, I turn around and see that he is coming 20 or 30 meters with a macabre smile”.
AND? “Suddenly I see two uniformed policemen walking down my sidewalk towards me and I grab them, hug them and start crying. I tell them what’s wrong with me and when they ask what kind it was, I point it out; I was walking like I was retiring. The policemen grabbed him by four stilts, turned him around, bent his arm and I told them: ‘It wasn’t him, sorry, I was wrong’, frightened I pointed to another one”, recalled the actor.
Source: Clarin
