In the recent chapter of “We can talk“, the actress Paty Lopez He was honest and remembered the time He couldn’t stand it and confronted a stalker in the street.
As detailed in the CHV program, everything happened when she was a teenager. The subject was walking with her son when the actress confronted him.
“Context, At the stage of secondary education, I started working as a promoter and to go to these agencies and meetings I was pretty, presentable.”, he started counting. “I finished at school, went to the bathroom, put on my clothes for the interviews to look nice and pretty and have the job.”
Along the same lines, he added: “I experienced a lot of street harassment during the nineties, all those disgusting things they said to women. Fidgeting on the buses. I lived in La Florida, from my house to Providencia where this school was that I transferred to, those bus trips, so I’m going to tell things, They were unpresentable and people did nothing”.
The actress recalled that she once tried to ask a man to move away and the guy called her “crazy.” “One spoke and they immediately treated each other as crazy. So we women didn’t dare to speak much.”he explained.
He confronted the subject in front of his son
One day in particular, Paty was walking through Santiago Centro when she experienced an unpleasant situation with a guy on the street. “An ordinary old man passes by (…) But he came with a child by the hand. He passed me here very close and he said something disgusting to me, but very close. and he leaves”, he mentioned.
“I, who had been accumulating for many years several unpleasant episodes of very violent physical and verbal street harassmenton that occasion something happened to me, I couldn’t stand it, I became empowered and filled with rage and I turned back“, confessed the actress.
López did not let the situation pass and decided to go confront the subject. “I face this rooster, with so much rage and so much adrenaline that I take him by the lapel, I lift him with my two hands (…) and I tell him ‘look, old conch…, never again dare to disrespect a woman with your son by your side“, revealed.
“I regretted having violated his father like that but I think that child never forgot that.”Paty expressed. “Children repeat what their parents do, so let’s be careful how we treat women so that children do not replicate these types of situations that are unacceptable,” López concluded.
