Actor Maxi Iglesias publicly discussed the death of his father and experiences with school bullying during a recent appearance on the Spanish television program “Universo Calleja,” currently filming in British Columbia, Canada. The revelations came during a segment of the show focused on Iglesias’s childhood, as reported by Telecinco and 20 Minutos.
Iglesias recounted traveling to Canada with his grandmother shortly after his father’s death, when he was six years old, to join another relative already living in the country. “I came with my grandmother because her other son lived here, my father was no longer here,” he said, describing the immediate aftermath of the loss. He reflected on a childhood hope that returning home would somehow reverse the reality of his father’s absence, a hope he acknowledged was unrealistic. “There was this feeling of thinking that when I returned, reality wouldn’t be reality, that I would proceed back and things would be as before, but logically that wasn’t the case,” Iglesias stated.
The actor also described finding solace in the vastness of the Canadian landscape during that tricky time. “That’s where I suppose I fell in love with the immensity of nature and that thing of not being afraid of the unknown,” he explained. The program, hosted by Jesús Calleja, features the group traveling across British Columbia in a motorhome, with Iglesias joining Calleja and other guests on the expedition, as noted by Mediaset Infinity.
The conversation shifted to Iglesias’s experiences with bullying during his schooling. He stated that he was frequently targeted by peers who possessed a perceived physical advantage. “At school, I was bullied many times, and those who did it were people who had a certain physique and a certain superiority,” he said, addressing perceptions related to his own physical appearance. Iglesias detailed how he consciously worked to subvert those expectations, aiming to demonstrate a different response to potential aggression. “That’s why I’ve made the effort for them to see in me this thing of: ‘He’s going to shatter me or destroy me.’ And quite the opposite, I would never use the solid things I have to trample on the people in front of me,” he asserted.
The program’s exploration of Iglesias’s past unfolded amidst a separate incident during filming, where host Jesús Calleja sustained injuries in a bicycle accident, requiring hospitalization, as reported by Mediaset Infinity. Calleja described the injury as a broken finger in three pieces, necessitating surgery.
