Maitén Montenegro recordó la relación muy lejana con su padre
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00:00The feeling that the economy was too important.
00:07My mother got into depression at some point, and I think it was largely because of this.
00:11Because of all this.
00:13Because, on the one hand, she was lost in love with my father,
00:17he was the man of her life until he died.
00:21For her, it was very strong when he emigrated and we didn't see him anymore,
00:25because he did a self-exile, really.
00:28He left Chile, he made the decision.
00:30How old were you when your father died?
00:32I think I was 13 years old.
00:34I was already a teenager.
00:36It was when he passed through Chile after the awards,
00:39and in Chile he was very bad, Chile did not recognize him
00:42to the extent that he felt he had to recognize her.
00:45What role will Montenegro offer you if you are the best actor in the world?
00:48Then he was left without a job.
00:50How long will you stay in Venezuela?
00:55We stay for at least a year and a half, two years, in Venezuela.
01:01Alone, my mother and I.
01:03Waiting for him to return.
01:06And I start taking care of my home.
01:10He does not return, we have no income,
01:14we stayed in a place, we had been in Puerto Rico,
01:18when he travels we stay in Venezuela,
01:20we start to live, to survive as we could,
01:24and I start acting.
01:26How old were you?
01:27I must have been between 10 and 11.
01:29And your father is in Paris, he did not return?
01:31He did not return.
01:32And not only did he not return, he did not know where he was.
01:35My father, sometimes I am overwhelming with him,
01:39I say he was a great actor, and mediocre as a father.
01:45I find that his role as a father, he never really knew how to interpret it.
01:55So you had to work at 10, 11 years old, to make small performances?
01:58Actions in telenovelas, which was what there was in Venezuela.
02:01And with that you contributed to the house?
02:03With that we contributed to the house.
02:04What happened with school?
02:05They were, what can I tell you, no, I was not,
02:08I stopped studying when I traveled to Puerto Rico to meet them,
02:11and from there I had private teachers,
02:14my mother, who was so cult, she took care of me, of teaching me,
02:18and I just never studied again.
02:21The search for vocabulary was born because I did not know how to write it.
02:26I never knew if I was going with C or with S.
02:29Until today, when I write the word emotions, it is my big problem.
02:36You are always in doubt?
02:37I'm always in doubt.
02:39Emotions, with that I do not know.
02:41Then I put it with feelings, better.
02:46When you see something written, look, look, it's in S.
02:49So I was looking for substitutes,
02:52and that made me expand a huge vocabulary of things,
02:57and I can talk to you and give a talk,
02:59and not be redundant and say the same thing with other words.
03:02And I started to generate these things that were...
03:06Tools?
03:07Tools.
03:09If you stop going to school at 9 years old...
03:11I start working.
03:12You start working.
03:13That in the mind of a little girl, obviously it is anachronistic,
03:16that should not happen to you.
03:19In what little girl?
03:20If your life has been...
03:23Taking the breast milk that they leave you here at a time
03:26because there was no one at home when you had to take it.
03:29If accompanying him, traveling, accommodating the public
03:32and worrying about everything that was our life,
03:34it was our life.
03:35I was not very aware that it was different.
03:39Or it should be different.
03:46And we sold everything we had of value with my mother
03:49and we paid 80% of the debt we had of that residence.
03:55Bye.
03:56And we go to Chile.
03:57And when we are in Chile, my father returns to Chile.
04:00When you return to Chile, you don't have to go to school either?
04:03I think that my only way to be able to do something fast
04:06is to act again on television.
04:08There was no television.
04:10There were no soap operas.
04:12If I had to teach chachacha, I taught chachacha.
04:15I was a demonstrator of that.
04:17Because I had studied ballet in Chile when I was a little girl.
04:20I had studied ballet in my school.
04:22Do you remember the day your father left?
04:24I don't remember.
04:26Why didn't we take him to any airport?
04:29He said, I'm going to look for better opportunities
04:32and I'm going to send them to look for.
04:38And I confess to you that he sent my mother,
04:41like a year later, he sent her a ticket.
04:44Your mother left?
04:45My mother stays with the ticket.
04:48My mother renews the ticket to travel later when it expires.
04:54My mother renewed it twice.
04:57Six months and six months later.
05:00And then she stayed with me.
05:15I mean, we never talked about what a great decision.
05:22He just did it and it seemed to me that it was the most fantastic love test of my life.
05:31I was moved by the time.
05:36Every time she renewed the ticket, I felt that she could leave.
05:43What was I going to do?
05:45It was very clear to me.
05:48But up to that point, Martin, I was a very, very, very confident person too.
05:55I mean, I think he was preparing me so that if she left, I would understand.
06:04I always knew that he was the great love of his life.
06:07And then it was like, OK, if it's going to happen, I have to continue anyway.
06:12I think at this point I was about 13 years old.
06:15I had already started to get involved in music.
06:19It was like, we never talked about it, but she returned the ticket.
06:24And everything was clear.
06:26We made a life together, the two of us.
06:29My mother was, from that day on, everything.
06:33The whole family.
06:35The father, the mother, the friend, the manager, the fighter, the one who pushed me, the one who...
06:41Everything, really.
06:43My mother was the whole family.
06:46It's that I remembered, because, look, it wasn't so transcendental when it happened.
06:52But over time, it was a tremendous thing.
07:00Because she never forgot it, because she was in love with her forever, all her life.
07:06Because I was still the strong one, the one who got through everything.
07:12And with her great support.
07:14She was a cultured woman, she was a woman.
07:16She was my public relationship.
07:18She got along very well with the press, with all the same journalists that my father had met at the time.
07:23Your mother took a life choice and said,
07:25or I'll stay with my daughter, or I'll go with my great love and stay with my daughter.
07:28Exactly, she had to make the decision.
07:30That was her big decision.
07:33Yes, I felt it like that.
07:34Like a tremendous decision too, and a tremendous proof of love.
07:40Without a doubt.