This Sunday the former conventional for the extinct People’s List, Rodrigo Rojas Vade, told in an exclusive interview with Pauta Libre de La Red how the lie of his false cancer originated.
“I am one more louse, if perhaps I had been a political animal I would have set off my alarms, or I would have tried to sneak away, but I am not. I saw myself, I was there and I practically gave myself up”.
This is how the former conventional Rodrigo Rojas Vade responded to the journalist Mónica González when she asked him about the journalistic investigation that ended up revealing his false leukemia, a type of cancer of the tissues that make up the blood and that finally ended up being a lie.
The foregoing, in the middle of a previously recorded interview for Pauta Libre in Network, where he also talked about how the lie originated and other matters of his private life.
The origin of the lie
“Nine years ago I began to get sick to my stomach very recurrently, with hospitalizations included, bloody diarrhea, problems… well, diarrhea, super recurrent stomach problems,” said “Pelao Vade”, as his close ones call him.
The former conventional explained that within the tests that were done, he was diagnosed with syphiliswhich he did not communicate to his partner, however, and as he revealed, he did not infect her.
“That’s why I didn’t tell him and, well, what happens when one faces these diagnoses, which is not the same as facing them now, 10 years later, 9 years ago, I felt a lot of shame, a lot of fear, a lot of hatred against myself, which are feelings that I have been carrying since I was a child, “he said.
Regarding the origin of the idea of disseminating false leukemia, he revealed that it originated “Because after syphilis I had a very important spinal cord compromise with a plasia, bicytopenia…”
“Through this important hematological commitment, which was later repeated in the years to come, which were attributed to autoimmune responses, I preferred to say that it was leukemia,” he added.
On whether the sexually transmitted disease brought him other complications, he explained: “I don’t know if it was from syphilis or if it was an explosion of autoimmune reactions.”
“Over the years, after almost 6, 7 years, a diagnosis of behcet’s disease was reached, which is an autoinflammatory, autoimmune disease. He wants to say that there is not something that triggers it, it is not a virus, it is not a bacterium, it is idiopathic”, he added.
The above described it as an entrance towards a spiral of lies
When asked about his motivation after his various visits to Plaza Baquedano, Rojas Vade indicated that he came to the place to unload “a lot of anger, like all the anger that all the people who were there had. Try to express myself.”
Abuse
Later, the journalist consulted him about the origin of that rage, to which the former conventional indicated that he was abused at the age of 10 in the neighborhood where he lived.
“The context is a child context. When one would have to be playing ball, little soldiers, which was what I did, someone crosses that line and goes beyond, “she said.
“I found out many years later and I daresay just a couple of months ago, Yes, it was an abusive situation. (…) I normalized it”.
MEA culpa
In the Rojas Vade instance he reiterated his forgiveness: “I apologize and I will always ask for it. But I can’t spend my whole life apologizing either, because that’s also not healthy for anyone because we all make mistakes. I know that mine is huge and I will never take responsibility from myself.
“I feel that I have made the decisions assuming all the responsibility that I deserve, maybe I fall short, some beyond will make a moral judgment if I need more or less punishment, but apologize appropriately”he argued.
He also said that he never wanted to make fun of anyone “not even cancer patients. On the contrary, I always wanted to shout for them what I couldn’t shout for myself. Scream for my grandfather, for my friends who have died of cancer, give my life for them. In a way, yes, to start fighting right there, ahead, where the bullets are. Where many companions lost their lives and I would do it again”.
“I do not justify what I did and I will never justify it. But the motivation is very far from what was installed in public opinion. I just wanted to help, put myself at the service of the cause so that things would change”, she specified.