The journalist Santiago Pavlovic referred to the multiple rumors regarding how he lost his eye, assuring that the idea that everything had happened in a war was something invented.
Journalist Santiago Pavlovic commented on the show Good night all the story of how he lost his left eyewhich is why he uses a characteristic patch on his face.
The communicator was talking with his colleague Eduardo Fuentes regarding different aspects of his professional and intimate life, when, near the end of the chapter, Fuentes wanted to give a special memory of Pavlovic.
Thus, the communicator upon opening the package might not hide his excitement at seeing a framed photograph of his childhood. In it, he appears as a child hugging his mother.
“This is the only photo I have as a child and with my mom. At that time I had both eyes.began counting, while looking at that memory.
It was then that, without even being consulted regarding it, he recalled that “months following that photo, I lost my left eye.”
On how this chapter happened, Pavlovic might not help but let out a slight laugh. “It was in a battle, in a war that I lost, in which I was defeated by my older brother”he commented with a smile.
“To an uncle, to a compadre of my father, it occurred to him to give us bows and arrows”, he recalled. “But these were bows and arrows that were buried, because they had a half metallic tip”described.
It was so, that in the midst of a friendly battle with his brother, “I got an arrow in the left eye.
Likewise, Santiago Pavlovic might not help but laugh when he recalled other popular versions of how he lost his eye. Until a long time following it was said that I had lost it in a waror reporting a conflict,” he recalled with a smile.
“But it wasn’t like that, it was when I was a child, a little older than in this photo,” he assured, looking at the postcard once more.
Santiago Pavlovic and his experiences covering wars
Likewise, Fuentes recalled a video from 2014, where Pavlovic went to Ukraine to see the beginnings of the armed conflict once morest Russia.
So, the Ukrainian military decided to chase his team and fire continuously. Pavlovic, for example, was kicked by the uniformed men and had to see how they took the cameraman away from him, without knowing what would happen to him.
Although the event did not end in a loss, Pavlovic then recalled the tension present in the place, to which Fuentes wanted to know what his family thought regarding his high-risk job.
“I think I’m a bit disrespectful, but dying was not what worried me the most, “admitted the communicator. “I felt that my wife at the time would understand perfectly if something happened,” he added.
Likewise, the journalist assured that his family “He knows that if you are in this conflict, something can happen.”
