Cristián de la Fuente once again defended his controversial statements on the Sin Filters program during a conversation with Jean Philippe Cretton on We can talk.
In the chapter that was broadcast this Friday, the actor together with Rocío Marengo, Agustín “Pastelito” Maluenda, Rodrigo Bastidas and Renata Bravo talked about different topics about their personal and work lives.
De la Fuente then sat down to talk with the driver, who asked him about his statements on the Gonzalo Feito program that generated a stir and an intense debate on the web a few months ago.
“Why is someone who gets the crest working, and who manages to have something, going to have privileges? People tell me: ‘You, in your place of privilege’… I was born two blocks from here, being the son of my father’s lover, living in another house, where I had to remove my mohawk and I had to end up supporting my mother and everything I have today is because I’ve worked my crest out,” De la Fuente said at the time.
“What privilege do I have?”
When asked about his statements, the actor explained that “I just said it today, I can say it more beautifully… I was born in an extramarital family, therefore I was not the main family, it was the second family.”
“Everything I had to do I had to earn. When my dad dies, my mom loses her job, I have to work and keep working hard enough. People tell me ‘why didn’t you study acting’, because I had to work to support my mom. Then my mom gets sick, she dies and I move on,” she added.
Likewise, the actor assured that “that is my story, and when people tell me ‘you from your place of privilege’, what privilege do I have? I didn’t inherit anything, I didn’t earn anything, they didn’t give me anything, I had to leave my country to look for work because I didn’t have one here. So what privilege are we talking about?
“They changed what I said”
For the same reason, the actor clarified what his words were, assuring that they were distorted by some means. “I said: ‘there are people who want things for free’. And there is,” he noted.
“There are certain bad media, because there are, there is a group of media that the only thing they tried to do is discredit me, throw bad vibes at me and attack me daily where they changed what I said and said: ‘the poor are poor because they are lazy’ . You can review the video and I never said that. I said that ‘there are people who want things to be given to them,’” De la Fuente explained.
The actor then assured that there are people who get into politics to live from the State, adding that there are other people, like him and all those present, “who take off our crests to have what we have.”
“Why, if we all work, why does there have to be a group that has certain privileges or that they give things away?” criticized the actor.