The cheerleader and former mayor of Pelarco, Rachel Argandoña, again referred to the complicated situation that his family is going through, after his son Hernán “Nano” Calderón He was accused of frustrated patricide, after he stabbed his father on August 11 Hernán Calderón Salinas claiming that he abused and sexually harassed his girlfriend Rebeca Naranjo.
In an interview with the newspaper ThirdThe Welcome panelist pointed out that she hoped she had not made a mistake in choosing the father of her children, assuring that her ex-husband knows that “Nano” did not want to make an attempt on his life.
“I want to believe that I was not wrong when choosing the father of my children, but what Hernán Calderón is doing is not done by any father in the world: wanting to dry up a son in jail. Because he knows perfectly well that my son never intended to murder him. He knows”, he expressed.
“Hernán Calderón would never think that his son was going to attack him again (…). I know he deserves punishment, of course he does, but not to dry him in jail, because he is sick, like everyone in this family … These days I have remembered the accident my son had in which he almost killed himself in the Camaro that gave him his father. Now, when I come to pray, I say to Our Lady: ‘If you saved him from that accident, don’t kill him now! “” He added through tears.
“It is all I ask of you. If something happened to my son, it would have been better if he had died in that accident. Why didn’t you take it with you in that accident! It would have been less pain than what I’m suffering now, I swear to you “, he stated.
The day of the incident
Regarding the day of the attack, Argandoña said that her son came to her house and told her what had happened, but then she left and did not see him again.
“My son comes home… I tell him ‘what did you do, son, what did you do’. He tells me, stays a few minutes and leaves. ‘I have to go,’ he tells me. I say ‘where are you going? Stay here. We’ll figure it out as a family. ‘ He was very scared. He said ‘I have to go out, I have to go out’. I didn’t see it anymore. Then his father calls me. He also tells me and says ‘I’m going to report it, I’m going to report it.’ I tell him: ‘Hernán, do what you have to do “”, he recounted.
The cheerleader said that “Nano” did not give her more details, she only told her that she fought with her father and he called the Carabineros. She also confessed that she was struck by the fact that when Hernán spoke with her he referred to the young man as “your son” instead of “our son.”
Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse that Rebeca Naranjo made against Hernán Calderón, Argandoña said that he saw the messages that he sent to the young woman.
“I have not lived with the father of my children for 15 years or more, so I do not know what happens in that house indoors. Hernán has had several partners. But I saw those messages, the WhatsApp. I’m not going to say who showed them to me. It’s super delicate, because I can’t believe it, but if you’re reading them, what do you want me to tell you. Here nothing is being invented, nor is it reacting to the other. I reiterate: I do not justify what my son did at all, but when a person who had so much admiration for his father finds out that he sent messages to his girlfriend with another intention and that when they lived together he touched her, I don’t know how another young man would react ”, he commented.
When asked if her son had ever been violent towards her, she recalled when her son got upset and stopped talking to her after mentioning him in a video on social networks, but she assured that she has never threatened her, denying what her daughter Kel said in the judicial statement where he stated that “Nano” threatened to kill his mother that time.
“It is known that when I opened my YouTube channel I recorded a video in which I saw a yellow Camaro and I knew that my son had one. He said ‘mom, put down that image’; I said no and he stopped talking to me for a long time, “he said. “My son has never threatened me. At most he has told me ‘Mom, I don’t like you to expose my story’. I didn’t just lower it “he added.
“I am not going to speak ill of my daughter Kel. I know that she is very close to Hernán now. And I’m glad, because that’s how he takes care of him, supports him, gives him support. But I am a mother of two children and I will always support them both. I want to make it clear that I do not justify my son’s actions, but something led him to this impulse. He never wanted to murder dad. No matter how bad a dad he is, he always knows his children. Both Hernán and I ”, he added.
“My children grew up with the nanny”
On the occasion the entertainer again blamed herself – as she did in Welcome – for not having been so present during her children’s childhood.
“When I was mayor, I had to live in Pelarco. My children lived in Santiago, in charge of the nanny, the person who raised them. At first, when I became mayor, Hernán was in charge of the children, but later he was my legal advisor in the municipality. Therefore, we both lived in Pelarco and my two children were in Santiago. A friend of Hernán took them on Fridays and picked them up on Sundays, but my children grew up with the nanny “, expressed
“We thought we were perfect parents, that we were doing great. Nobody ever told us otherwise, “he added.
He also said that he did not want to blame the father of his children for the upbringing they had, since both are responsible, despite the fact that he had custody.
“I don’t want to blame him. I think we both have it. In that I am super responsible. It would be very easy for me to say that this happened because of him. If he had grown up with me, the same might have happened. Because the acting of our children is what we teach. Blame it on both of us. I can’t blame him, I would never blame it on him. Never ”, he clarified.
“We both worked and we left them abandoned, in charge of their lifelong nanny, whom I am very grateful to, but they say that no one replaces the affection of mom and dad (…). Many years ago one of my children got white lice; they say that those appear by loneliness “, he expressed.
When asked about her words in Welcome, where she said that she would give everything to make things different, she said that she was referring to her career and having been more present.
“If you ask me what I would like at this time, I would say that I no longer want to call myself Raquel Argandoña, because my son is paying to be Raquel Argandoña’s son. It is a very great weight to be my son at this time, it is a burden. It’s a curse to call me what my name is (…). Do you think that if my name was Juana Salas, the television channels would have made this carnage? Who would have cared? It would have been one more case of domestic violence. Why do you have so much publicity? Because he’s my son, that’s why we’ve been on all channels for days “he commented.
“I am a public woman and I will always show my face. This is domestic violence, but they are giving it the title of patricide and they know perfectly well that this is not the case. I do not justify what my son did, it is obvious that it needs a punishment, but it also has to be treated. Treat him, treat me, treat his sister and dad. We are a mess as a family. And I keep it, really, “he said.
“It doesn’t just have to do with my job. I would have loved if someone had told me that we were making mistakes in the education of our children, that we did not leave them alone “he added.
“My son did not speak to me a year ago”
Argandoña acknowledged that he spoke to his son again shortly before the incident, since they had been estranged before.
“My son did not speak to me for a year. When it seems that Hernancito and his father were arguing a lot, he asks that his apartment be returned to him. They left it awful. Suddenly I see that he says ‘mom, are you?’. I said ‘always’. My phone is on 24/7, because when you have kids and a 94-year-old mom, you think something might happen. So I started talking to my son. It must have been two weeks ago, ”he commented.
In relation to her son’s behavior and the images she has published on social networks (with weapons, money and a half-naked woman), she lowered her profile, pointing out that it is “a stage”.
“What happens is that young people go through stages. Suddenly they want to be rappers, then they want to sing, they imitate what happens outside a lot. They copied the videos from outside ”, he commented, insisting that his weapons are registered and that they are for his shooting sport.
On the other hand, Raquel explained that she wanted to take her son to the psychologist since he was a child when he showed impulsive behavior. “You can imagine what that house was like when we all lived together and fought. We never solved our problems within four walls, we always exposed them, from my infidelity, the custody, everything was public … This is a toxic family, we have hurt ourselves a lot and now we cross all limits, “he confessed.
“People speak without knowing”
As for accusations of “privilege” for being serving preventive detention in a psychiatric clinic, Raquel said that is not the case.
“That those who speak find out well how my son is today, and tell me if that is a privilege, he is not in a VIP clinic,” he said. “People speak without knowing, he is not well; ask his lawyers who have seen him, he is not in a spa, he is not in a VIP clinic, they saw him, and all that is said is from people who do not know. I have only asked the lawyers to give him a kiss, to tell him that I love him, that I am here supporting him, that I will never leave him alone, “he added.
“I was summoned by the psychologist to evaluate the possible treatment of my son. Unfortunately, the doctors have not been able to evaluate him, because the Gendarmerie does not leave the room and they had him shackled hands and feet. They didn’t let go of it either to shower or to eat. My son cannot leave the room, which is 2 × 2. That didn’t seem human to us. They kept me at the clinic for four hours yesterday while I asked the Gendarmerie for permission, but I couldn’t see him yesterday. That is why the lawyer made this complaint ”, he assured.
Finally Argandoña indicated that he continues to have the same “tough” stance that he showed before against those who commit crimes, but that in the case of his son he is a sick person.
“I believe the same with regard to crimes, but when it comes to a patient I think it is different. I still think that for rapists you have to have a strong hand, for criminals a strong hand, but here there was no intention to murder anyone, only to teach a lesson. We are not facing a murderer. I give my mother’s life and mine, my son is not a murderer ”.
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