Intimate with Laura Bozzo: the girl who was bullied and became a TV star

By Mariana Dahbar and Cynthia Talavera

"I have suffered a lot," said Laura Bozzo remembering the hardships of her life, which began when she was a child and a victim of intimidation. Although she studied law, she became over time one of the most most famous and controversial figures of Latin American television.

In your apartment in a Luxurious area of ​​the Mexican capital, from where we can see the Chapultepec Castle, Bozzo received a Infobae. It is this place full of light and six rooms, where Laura spends her days, accompanied by faithful service people for years.

Surrounded by some furniture and occupying a prominent place in her mother's painting, Laura, dressed in a spectacular gold jacket and specially made up for the event, spoke exclusively of her childhood, problems to which she was confronted by her character, her arrival on television and how her iconic phrase came "Let the miserable go by." As well She remembered the day she was arrested and placed under house arrest.

"It was a girl from an Italian family who had succeeded in Peru, my father was the best engineer, my grandfather the king of fishing, and they put me in a school of high society where they were all rich, irrelevant. They laughed at me, they pulled my hair, they told me things, I kept fighting or hiding in the bathroom", he said about the intimidation he suffered.

Bozzo preferred to hide in the bathroom at recess so as not to socialize, which left her without friends. Until now, it was difficult for her to make friends because she did not communicate with others. This loneliness brought him, in adulthood, to spend a birthday alone in Tijuana, stuck in a bar with "prostitutes who have taught me how to dance".

But, unlike what happened to her at school, among those people, Laura felt good.

"When I'm in these places, I have the impression that it's me." I sit down to drink a tequila, whatever, on the floor of a poor house, on a chair or on a stone. and I feel more than I belong there that in all this world in which I am but I am not a part ".

– For those who do not know you, for those who do not know Laura Bozzo, who is Laura Bozzo?

The big bazaar of Laura Bozzo

It's precisely the day Laura found herself in a big mess when she decided talk about the unrecognized daughter of Alejandro Toledo, then president of Peru.

Bozzo could have recorded his show from Mexico and even cross the migration area, but he did not want to run away and leave the workers of his show without source of employment.

– How did it happen that day when they stopped you? What is the first thing that came to your mind?

– I said "I will not run away." The worst was my daughter, I was 13 years old, I cried on the side holding my leg and I told myself: "I'm going with my daughter and it's over". It was a matter of seconds when I pulled my mother's love. But when I was about to leave, I closed my eyes and saw all the people who trusted me, who were playing for me and saying, "I'm going to stay, the one who escapes is the one who is to blame ".

Bozzo tried to calm his daughter, but he did not expect his procedure to last three years. He gave the police the address of his television set, which looked like his house.

The beginning of Laura Bozzo and "let the miserable go by"

The arrival of Bozzo on television was a coincidence. When she was governor of the Lima municipality, they interviewed her for a channel and a politician saw Wood devoting himself to this medium. "I had never been interested in TV, I had never dreamed … I think people were tired of cute faces and descerebradas"

– You are there but the first day you make up, they told you that it was the decor. How did this process happen?

– There were three of us. Women have the floorThis is how the program was created, it was born from an interview that was done. They even invented me and I started talking as if I was talking to you, as if I was talking. What I thought And this caused unrest. To be a stranger to being talked to by everyone on the street, I loved it. It was the beginning.

After the Fujimori government, of which Bozzo was critical, and ended with this show, but a year later, the presenter discovered that it was the television and Genaro Delgado Parker, owner of Panamericana, told him that he should have a show like that of Cristina Saralegui.

-In this step on TV, how does this famous phrase "cross the unfortunate", how did you arrive?

– It happened like this … There was the unfortunate, Jesus, aged 17 to 18, there were two 16-year-old girls pregnant with him and there was a third one that I I got out of his back, out of 15. I remember that I was going to say no, I said let the wretch pbad. And it was there. The unfortunate man was Jesus who had pregnant them at three o'clock.

The girl behind the strong woman

Laura Bozzo is only afraid to fail with her daughters and her people. To his parents, "I would tell them to forgive me because I think they would have expected it to be more normal, so to speak." The poor I know can not rest in peace because all my life, I'm in trouble.

Behind the strong and confident woman, Laura said that there was an immature person. "I have an IQ of 253 and yet my emotional intelligence is zero, I am a girl practically in many things".

– What would you say to anyone watching this note? What would your message be today Laura?

Among the problems that he encountered, criticisms and accusations, Bozzo badured that he did not regret the decisions that he had made.