Manuel Cortés cries with Alma Bollo when talking about his father Chiquetete in ‘Survivors’

Manuel Cortés and Alma Bollo We are not used to talking about the relationship with his father Antonio José Cortés Pantoja, better known by his stage name whip, something they have done in an environment of trust with Adara Miller on the beach and for what they have been asked live after nominating together in the palapa.

Manuel tells Adara that when his father left “he already had the use of reason” and that is why he remembers things that his sister does not. “I have not lived because he has not wanted to live with me”says his sister before this and recounts some of his experiences: “The last time I saw him I was conscious, I know where he took us and the game we played. After that I have seen him, I have crossed him and he has crossed sidewalk”.

“We never came to understand why my father did that kind of thing,” Manuel assures, and Alma opens up to this: “My mind tells me that you have to forgive, but my heart does not forgive. Nobody has given me an explanation of why you don’t love me, why you don’t want to talk to me.” The brothers explain that they have never known the reason for the situation and Manuel ends up breaking down: “My mother has suffered a lot with this issue with us, it’s something that has accompanied me all my life”.

Manuel and Alma’s most sincere conversation about their father with Adara

Carlos Sobera, after hearing these words from both of them, has asked Manuel about the feelings he feels towards his father today and he has completely broken: “It is a very complicated subject for me, it is very personal, very hard. He has been with me my whole life, I am healed, but I cannot help but be moved.” He explains that it is something that “has hurt a lot”, not only because of him, but also because of his sister and his mother who have had to “calm his suffering”. “He is no longer here and he made certain decisions at the time that he thought were appropriate, He made many mistakes that I am grateful to be able to learn from them and not make them myself as a father”.

Alma has assured that “no” she has managed to forgive her father, it is difficult for her because “It has been the one that has been left without answers or the one that has never had a call” because simply she has not been treated in any way: “Yes, she hoped that before what happened happened, a reason would arrive, even if she didn’t help herself, that would make me forgive, not for him but for me so as not to live with those harsh and close, but I have not succeeded”.