The revelation made by model Frida Sofía about her family this week has made the Guzmán-Pinal dynasty tremble again. The 29-year-old has accused her grandfather, Mexican singer and actor Enrique Guzmán, of sexually assaulting her since she was five. “He touched me,” he burst into tears in an interview on the program The moment my destiny changedby Gustavo Adolfo Infante. The confession, which includes Guzmán’s mistreatment of his ex-wife, iconic actress Silvia Pinal, has unleashed a trail of cross accusations among members of the powerful Mexican entertainment clan.
Daughter of Latin American songstar Alejandra Guzmán, Frida Sofía describes her grandfather as “a very disgusting, very abusive man” who “always” scared her. “What he did to me is a crime. Most disgusting of all, when you’re so young and they tell you this is what a grandfather does to his granddaughter that he loves her, at that age you have no idea, no conscience, and it’s going to be normal, ‘he reveals the first time the Mexican socialite, who presented legal action against Guzmán on Thursday. Through tears, he recounts the shame he felt in the abuse: “How disgusting, but sometimes he starts to feel rich because they touch your genitals. That’s why I kept quiet about it, because I said, “So, am I sick or how are you?”
Enrique Guzmán, 78, denies the story and accuses his granddaughter of undergoing psychiatric treatment: “I am not a degenerate. I am a gentleman. ”Although he initially also threatened to sue Frida Sofía, other members of the family have denied that he will finally do so. Alejandra Guzmán released a video statement defending her father against her daughter’s complaints:“ It is very sad to see my father for what is happening because I am also going through these baseless allegations which are not fair and I offer to you Frida to solve this in the best way, to find a good therapist ”.
Mother and daughter have long been estranged in a complicated history that includes drugs, fights, and abuse. Frida Sofía claims she never knew the maternal side of Alejandra Guzmán, who she describes as “addicted to all drugs” and even accuses her of sleeping with her partner Christian Estrada or throwing bottles at her. The so-called Queen of the Rock in Mexico has undergone abortions, depression, cancer and several dozen surgeries in her history of survival.
Frida Sofía emphasizes that her mother used substances in front of her and that she had sex with men in the same hotel room where she stayed during the tours, from five to eleven years old. Those encounters with Guzmán ended on several occasions, according to the young model, in the abuse of these men towards her. It started to happen to me again to the men my mother knew and took to the hotel room. When she was asleep or unconscious, they came to touch me. Someone raped me ”, she reveals crying.
After her mother rejected these stories, Frida Sofía uploaded her version to her Instagram account, where she accumulates 1.6 million followers. There he posted a harsh statement: “Mom, it saddens me to see you continue with the puppet show when you know perfectly who he is. You know he raped and beat my grandmother, you cried at the thought of her purple eyes, he pulled his teeth at you, he has always abused you ”.
The young woman has posted a video clip showing Guzmán admitting that his father hit Silvia Pinal. The 89-year-old actress, a theater pioneer dedicated as Luis Buñuel’s muse and one of the foremost interpreters in Mexico, has today broken her silence. “I am not indifferent to what is happening in my family bosom. Frida, your grandmother loves you deeply. We need both, ”Pinal wrote, asking his granddaughter to stay away from the means to resolve this situation.
Frida Sofía, who has said she is very proud of the courage to finally talk about the abuse, has assured that with her “the chain of silence will be broken”. “As much as you drive me crazy like so many relatives of victims, their only answer is that they have mental problems,” he wrote on his networks. Mexico is the OECD country with the highest rates of child abuse, with 5.4 million cases per year.
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