Fayna Bethencourt, the monster and courage: "You think you're going to die"

• LOC Fayna Bethencourt, after the mistreatment of El Yoyas: "He told me: 'Baby, inside of me there is a monster and only you can stop it'"

Fayna Bethencourt

did not sit down last night in front of

to recount only the hell that

, better known as

, plunged him into for 16 years .

The real reason, the one that gives meaning to the courage of this woman to go out on television again after practically 22 years without stepping on a set, is that they would listen to her.

Not only that she listened to the terror that "a monster" made her live, but that women listened to her, unfortunately many women, who are living in that same hell, the hell of abuse.

"It has always helped me a lot to be able to express what I experienced, but if I feel here it is because of all the women who are where I was. I have gone out, I have redone my life, I am happy, but I do not want to forget. I do not want to forget for all of them.

, "he declared as soon as the interview began and repeated as many times as he could during it.

's courage

is not only having survived an abuser, nor beatings, nor humiliation.

's courage

is to revive it so that other women listen to her, so that other women know that where she was she can get out of it, so that other women -who are many with whom she speaks almost daily- open their eyes her.

It took her, it took her many years because, as she explained,

. "

It is slow, little by little, minute by minute.

And one day you wake up and you realize that something is happening.

The turning point of

, after being isolated, after having suffered "brutal" beatings, after turning her into who she was not, she was her children.

Rarely has

been seen as he was last night during

's

.

He is always serious, incisive, direct... Last night, each phrase of

was like a dagger that stuck into

and stuck into whoever we were listening to.

It is very impressive to see a woman who has suffered so much to maintain herself during an interview that should not have been easy for her to be so firm, so whole.

There were only two moments where

broke down.

When recounting what led him to say enough is enough and file the first complaint against

,

, and talking about all the women who text him saying they're out of hell and thanking him.

The key to the interview with

was her, the victim.

Allow her to speak, to tell what she had lived through, what she wanted to force, without falling into a show, or a show, just her and the window that gave her a voice, her voice.

, at most, should have asked three questions, because her role was neither to ask nor to question, her role was to be sitting there in front of her, so that Fayna could see

.

's story

.

And it is appreciated, infinitely appreciated because that is how it should always be.

When

began to recount the episodes of ill-treatment to which

subjected her for so many years ,

did not seek for her to describe in detail how they were, nor if he hit her in one place or another, nor what He came to do it, because he did not look for the morbidity at any time.

Risto Mejide was clear throughout

that

only needed that window that she asked for at the beginning of the interview so as not to forget.

And he left her.

Nor was it necessary to detail anything that she recounted because only with what anyone recounted can one get an idea of ​​the suffering, terror and panic that this woman experienced.

Since her first attack, which was not the one that everyone in

remembers about her, but the one that made her realize that something strange was happening.

But, as she explained last night, she was in love, in love with "an uncle who told me very well about his family. With an uncle who helped the ladies carry the groceries. I thought that the rebel without a cause with a complicated childhood had not He knew true love until he met me, because you also see yourself on that motorcycle.

".

The terror of Fayna Bethencourt with El Yoyas

In fact,

made it known to him

- showed the images of the aggression for which

was expelled from the house of

.

Only the images were shown when

left the house and how she defended that she would never consent to an attack.

laughed, because

decided last night that she was going to replace her tears with nervous laughter, a mirror of a soul that she has suffered too much.

The first time that

cried for an attack by

was later.

When they left the house they both went to live together.

They isolated themselves because of fame "and because abusers are what they do."

One day, in the street,

doesn't quite remember why, or what she did to wake up the monster, El Yoyas grabbed her hand angrily, with all her strength: "She squeezed her hand so hard that tears flowed ".

For a long time,

endured violence that was gradual.

she started by

when she didn't like it because "it was made without love" , with turning her "into a woman of the 50s".

Meanwhile,

toured all the Telecinco sets showing off that aggressiveness that at that time was so funny towards everyone.

In

, at discussion tables... It was his role and he "was the TV star."

, meanwhile, in a jail.

The violence began to escalate when his first daughter was born.

With the arrival of the little girl,

begins to answer, she begins to scream in the attacks, and the brutality begins to grow, to grow, to grow.

If

answered, he hit harder;

if

stirred, hell burned even hotter.

"The most brutal aggressions were at the end of the relationship. At first it started with touches: handshakes, heel stomps... They were small touches of attention. Sorry, he didn't tell me and if he did say it, it was 'this reaction of mine you did

.' And with that violent response to what he says, you start to change your behavior," he explained.

's obsession

was such that whenever he attacked

he did so on parts of the body that could not be seen with the naked eye.

If

yelled, he would stop for fear that her neighbors would hear him.

If

wanted to go wash the car,

forbade it because in his sick mind he considered that washing the car had a sexual nature.

"Yes, sexual intercourse was also...".

Spot.

He didn't have to say anything else.

And the moment came, the day that

said enough, the first moment of the interview in which

broke down, the moment when

held her, grabbed her hand, reassured her and told her that she did not have to tell nothing she didn't want, that what she was counting on was more than enough.

How right!

Fayna's bravery is indescribable.

did to him

, but the fear that he was experiencing: "He was going to grab me around the neck and while he squeezed me he told me he was going to kill. Then in your head you think you're going to die. Then your neck hurts, but the worst thing is the fear you go through, because you think it's the end."

"A very hard turning point arrives and it is

in which

. All of this was recounted in a sentence.

. He was always careful not to leave marks on my face (...) It's difficult because sometimes it seems like I'm talking about someone else.

I've realized that there are parallels in an abusive relationship with that of a cult." , recounted.

A beating and mistreatment that at the end of hell

carried out in front of the children of

, reaching such a point that for children it began to be normal to see those beatings.

They assumed them as usual.

Until

runs away.

She leaves that torture room.

However, the complaint comes later, the day her 10-year-old daughter receives a message from

saying

's sexual atrocities .

Risto Mejide: "I don't want them to do more damage"

justified herself

.

"I know and tell me what you can. I don't want you to hurt yourself more than what they did to you,"

told him .

"He begins to send a series of whatsapp and audio messages.

. My daughter comes and I see the white girl. 'Mom, look what she has put here. And when my daughter tells me 'look what he said' and it is a message of a super strong sexual nature I say 'It's over' And

".

A complaint that F

withdraws because

apologizes and because, and above all for this, because

had turned

into a puppet, into a doll, into a battered woman, that no one forgets.

Later the second complaint arrives after more verbal attacks, after more threatening messages to her, her children, her father.

Fayna denounces again.

In January 2018, Carlos Navarro was sentenced to more than five years

.

But Carlos Navarro never shows up to serve his sentence.

He has been on the run ever since.

As Risto Mejide said, "the system has failed you, we have failed you".

Carlos Navarro

is still at large and the fear of

, the one who had disappeared, against whom he has fought because Fayna feels helpless, because

has no protection other than one call a month to find out if

has contacted with her.

"The more time passes, the less calm because I don't know where he is. What if he prescribes? And then what prevents you from taking a plane. He told me, that he didn't care about going to jail because there he would have food and shelter That

(...) He has threatened me so many times with killing me... I know I will never be safe. We deserve rest," denounced Fayna Bethencourt with all her might.

And an ending, the one decided by

, the

of 22 years ago, because

has once again been that

: "I don't want to forget, may my hell serve other people..."

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