The bullfighter did not avoid any questions this Friday in his first interview on a television set but he made his intentions clear: “I have not sold you my soul nor have I sworn to tell the truth. Ask what you want, but there are things that I am not going to do.” to respond”. And one of those things has been the separation of him from Eugenia Martínez de Irujo: “I'm not going to talk about that. For many reasons, not just out of respect for my daughter.”
He has also qualified some of his statements from last week: “Saying that we were not in love was a way of speaking. I was in love with Eugenia, and I think she was in love with me too, but we were very young and we were not prepared. “We let ourselves go, it was a very passionate relationship.” And it has also been reaffirmed in others: “When I asked for custody, because the girl asked me, it broke my skin as a father. Is it so horrible that a father wants to live with his daughter? I never spoke ill of Eugenia, I never said that “I was unstable, I don't think it would be that terrible to ask for custody of my daughter. I suffered a lot.”
“I have cried a lot because of Isabel Pantoja”
Fran has expanded on the tonadillera, with which he maintains a pulse for the inheritance of his father, Paquirri. Pantoja never wanted to hand over the bullfighter's personal belongings to Fran and Cayetano after his death, not even when a judge agreed with them: one day after the sentencing, she claimed that they had broken into Cantora and taken everything. . A lie that has already been exposed by people around her and even by her own son, Kiko Rivera, who confirmed that there are Paquirri suits and swords on the farm. “It has hurt me a lot, it has crushed my heart and I have cried a lot because at some moments in my life, when I started bullfighting, it would have been very important to have something from my father”said Fran Rivera without being able to contain her tears.
The issue has reached a stalemate because the next step would be to call Kiko Rivera to testify in court: “I'm not going to put my brother in the situation of testifying against his mother. I did not do it with my grandfather and my uncles and I am not going to do it with him,” he said. “I have spoken a lot with him and I have asked him to intercede. The last time he told me 'Brother, forget it, he doesn't want to give you anything.” Of course, he states: “If I were Kiko, my brothers would already have their father's things, I would have stood up a long time ago and given it to them. But I don't know what happens in that house. “Maybe it's the house of terror.”
Fran is blunt: “How that lady has behaved doesn't enter anyone's head. Many people have told her about the damage she was doing and she is becoming more and more stubborn and closed in, it seems that she enjoys doing that damage.” And she added: “When I talk about her I do it from the most inhuman pain because what she did with Cayetano and me is inhuman. I no longer have any hope of recovering anything.”