Fernando Tejero opens up about childhood sexual abuse and bullying in revealing interview

We are used to seeing the most humorous roles of Fernando Tejerolike Emilio in There is no one living here or Fermín in The one that is coming. But the actor has already shown us more than once the most personal facets of him beyond the small screen, such as his fight against depression or some of his most tortuous moments.

But what he revealed in an interview in La Ventana, with Carles Francino in Cadena Ser, we hadn’t heard of it until now. In fact, the actor himself confessed that he had never before told anything about what has been one of his most traumatic episodes: “They sexually abused me.”

It all started when Tejero remembered his time living with his aunt in Córdoba and how, after her death, he had to return home with his parents, the same ones who sent him there because they couldn’t take care of so many children: “I was a borrowed child. When I was 14 years old, my aunt got cancer and I had to go back to my parents’ house. For me it was another abandonment that has taken its toll on me over the years.”

Fernando Tejero: bullying and childhood abuse

As if this were little weight for a child, the actor also recounted how his time at school was, a stage marked by bullying from his classmates for his homosexuality. “I lived a screwed up time, very screwed up. I lived ten years of Franco, the Transition, and I was not me until I arrived in Madrid because I was homosexual. As a child he had a lot of pen, and they already insulted me“He told Cadena Ser.

The interpreter himself already said it during the interview, that his childhood and adolescence were “to write a movie”. Thus, Tejero confessed that he was the victim of sexual abuse by a partner who, as he himself pointed out, was older than him.

“And of course, I didn’t want to accept myself either by society, by my family… So, I took off the pen by correcting myself. My voice is hoarse today and I stutter for not being able to express myself as I was, “she lamented.

Likewise, the winner of a Goya award in 2004 also highlighted the bad relationship he had with his father: “My father is the one responsible for me being kind of crazy today.”