Kiko Rivera: "For my mother I have been her credit card"

"I am not going to forgive and even less forget," stated Kiko Rivera about the facts that he has been discovering about the inheritance of his father, Francisco Rivera

, and the decisions that her mother, Isabel Pantoja, has been making about her.

From the very long conversation that the youngest son of the bullfighter - who died on September 26, 1984 because of the goring he received in the Cordovan square of Pozoblanco - had this Friday night with Jorge Javier Vázquez, conflicts could at first be understood economic between a mother and a son that could have double and triple interpretations according to the lawyer who dissected them.

But after dawn, after hours in which the camera mercilessly focused on the disengaged face of the son of the 'widow of Spain', the bomb arrived: that fact that occurred on August 2 of this "damn 2020" as the Kiko himself and marked a before and after in his relationship with his mother.

Until then, a son had been astonished at papers and dates that showed, as far as he could explain, that his father's wishes regarding the fate of his property at the time of his death had not been respected.

At least not as he had written in his will.

The viewer who came across the interview remained hooked on the words that a son was reeling off, who until three months ago adored his mother and has defended her tooth and nail.

"My mother, according to this," said Kiko Rivera brandishing a folder with papers, "she has not been a good person for 34 years."

"I make it public because I have asked in private many times and the answer has always been: 'I have nothing,' as if it were sad.

"They have said that I am a maintained but this shows [again the folder in hand], that I have been my mother's credit card."

"I can't stop loving my family, but I can't forgive."

"I have lost years of relationship with my brothers."

"Mom, why did you do this to me?

You have raised me thinking that everything that was called Rivera was bad ”.

"All my life I have thought that my grandfather, my uncles, my brothers did not love me and that is very sad because I do not know how to recover that time".

All those words came from the depths of the soul of a 36-year-old man who is in the process of healing his confessed addictions, and at times became an abandoned child and deceived by his mother, who implored the figure of a father who He died when he was only seven months old and the Nibbled bull crossed between him and his cloak.

The papers contained dates, dispositions of the deceased father on how to distribute the assets among his three children -Francisco, Cayetano and Kiko Rivera-, his parents and brothers and his widow, Isabel Pantoja, whom he had married on April 30, 1983. The summary of this long and dense part is that Kiko Rivera believes that her mother has deprived her of part of her inheritance and that she has used Cantora, the estate that her father bequeathed to her and of which she originally had the usufruct, to get credits that now weigh her down.

All making legal movements while he was a minor and his mother was his representative but also an interested party in the arrangements.

Legal irregularities were also dealt with on how Paquirri's assets and properties ended up being distributed without strictly following his wishes.

But the worst happened, when Kiko with his head down admitted, almost freed from a heavy burden, the information that a collaborator of the program had just sent to Jorge Javier Vázquez through a message on his mobile phone.

That day in August, which was fateful for Kiko, he discovered by chance that in his father's room in Cantora were all the personal belongings that he had left as an inheritance to his two older children, Fran and Cayetano Rivera, and that they have been claiming for 36 years. to Isabel Pantoja.

Some belongings - mainly bullfighter suits, capes and personal objects of greater sentimental than economic value - that when the bullfighter's heirs showed up to collect years ago after obtaining a court ruling that forced Pantoja to hand them over, she declared that they had been stolen and that he had filed a complaint.

Facts that the program's collaborators described as punishable and for which Isabel Pantoja could be accused of obstructing justice and false reporting.

"I was in a state of shock," said Kiko Rivera remembering that moment.

"That room is usually locked but I had entered it many times accompanied by my mother and there was none of that there," he continued explaining.

Only a few minutes before, a call from Francisco Rivera had entered the program live, and without giving more details, he addressed his brother directly: “I am very sorry for the pain you are going through because I have suffered a lot.

I just want to say that we support you and that you can count on us.

There is more but we keep quiet out of respect for you.

I have known this for many years, I have suffered it in silence out of respect for my brother.

Dad would be very proud, ”and he had to interrupt the call between sobs on the phone and the contained emotion of Kiko Rivera on set, who later said that he had already apologized to his brothers for something he had not done.

What is derived from all this seems long and arduous, difficult to solve without the intervention of a court, as explained by the DJ himself. But what he did make clear he summed up in a lapidary phrase: "The relationship with my mother is over since August 2, she was not up to the task."