“My first news comes from a student who sent me to hurt me,” explained Alba Flores (Madrid, 39 years old). Saldremos Majoris Podcast About the relationship between his singer priest Antonio Flores and drugs. “I remember having to go home and ask my mother: ‘Who are you and why did you tell me that?’” recalls the actress, who at the time was “9 or 10 years old” and had only lived since the death of her father, who died of an overdose in May 1995. “My mother is a great person and a very intelligent woman, and she dealt with it in a very destigmatizing way,” he said during his visit. Podcast Written by Inés Hernand and Neria Pérez de las Heras out of promotion of the documentary Flowers for Antonio.
Flores also explains that he told his mother what happened: “In life there is something about drugs, it is there, if you can use it for medicine or for pleasure, and on occasions, it also causes problems. It depends on how you use it, a knife can be used to cook someone or kill them. This is the same thing.” Flores insisted that his mother explained the situation very well, but she needed more answers and the process was complicated: “I still have to do more things for me, always through people, and how they live it. I had no idea. It hurt me as much as it hurt me as a girl because I felt so exposed, I was overwhelmed.” “Scared, so confused, I didn’t know better.”
“I come from a generation in which many men and women are addicted priests and we have to report that,” he explained a few months ago in an interview in Base Weekly. protagonist Paper house The father’s death occurred on May 30, 1995, when Antonio Flores turned up dead in the cabin that had been built next to him. LirilFamily chalet located in La Moraleja.
The actress presented the documentary Flowers for Antonio“Tribute” to his priest directed by Isaki Lacusa and Elena Molina. “It is a celebration for my father and my mother, but for me it is also a tribute and a hug to that girl who was born in my skin. As an adult, I can hug that girl, and that is what I have to do. And that inherited girl, the one inside me, just as we all have an inherited girl inside me, I wanted to break the spear in favor of his history,” he concluded during his intervention in Podcasthighlighting the difference between the story being the character’s account and the character being the character’s own story.
“I don’t remember anything from those days,” Flores said in the interview published by this periodical last summer. “I was 8 years old and I tried to protect myself from the press as well. What I sought in this film was to know my father, who served my family and spent a lot of time.”
In her review of the film published in EL PAÍS, Elsa Fernández Santos talks about how the documentary about the musician is the honesty of her daughter Alba Flores, who also serves as creative producer of this project: “It is about adapting the stories of the priest’s daughter through love and memory, an exercise that shows in a renewed way this honesty and the innate charisma of the first child, Lola Flores.” You can read the full review here.