It was November 3, 2017, edition number 18 of the flagship of Mediaset, Big Brother. That night, and after a party with a lot of alcohol in Guadalix de la Sierra, Charlotte Prado suffered alleged sexual abuse by her boyfriend, Jose Maria. The trial took place last November and a sentence is still awaiting: “My case is unprecedented, it is recorded. He admitted it in front of four people. The truth is that I don’t know what more evidence they need. They told me that a sentence would be handed down in a month or two, look at the date it is. This is torture,” she said.
The former contestant explains that there were many people in the house that night and none interceded to protect her: “There were 34 people, 12 possibly women, who are witnesses and do nothing. That is an omission of the duty to help. In the trial they only testify four. I have published everyone’s first and last names and I don’t care exactly the same. They will remember my name until the day they die,” he says emphatically in an interview with The world. “I remember being in bed. The last breath of strength that I have before passing out from alcohol is taking off my sweater. When they show me the recordings, I hear myself say on two occasions “Get off! I can’t!” and push it away with my hand. It’s recorded. Then they isolated me for four days in a hotel, they wanted me to file a joint complaint with them. I didn’t. Many judge me because I returned home, but I did it to help my family, who was going through a bad time”.
Carlota has had mental problems ever since. In fact, the first trial had to be suspended because she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital: “I was 14 days and they gave me an antipsychotic a day and I went to the psychologist. What was published that I had serious mental health problems is a lie. I was there to get a chance out of the situation.” He also left him with a diagnosis under his arm: “Explosive borderline disorder. It means that I have explosions and at one point violence, but I have not practiced violence again. I have gone to the psychiatric center twice, to the Alhaurín prison de la Torre I don’t want to go”. However, she admits: “I am a violent person, I have a lot of character. My mother tells me that my way of speaking is to be afraid of me.”
Biker, passionate about tattoos (she is 45) and lover of animals (she lives with a dog, a rabbit and a tarantula), she has made a radical change in her life: “I am in a stage of introspection. I am depressed, bad grapes, but I no longer take medication. Healthy life. I neither drink nor smoke. I have given up absolutely everything. I don’t even drink a beer. I walk through the countryside with my pets. I spend my days refuting Buddhist philosophy”. Now, he just wants to move on: “You don’t have to believe in resentment and you don’t have to forgive. You have to go through all the stops and want to be happy. If you have to go to a psychiatric hospital, look for the opportunity to benefit yourself. Worry about being the best possible”. And she adds: “I just want this not to be forgotten, because I was on the cover of The New York Times. The silence that exists in Spain is indecent.”