In a recent interview, the Monterrey actress Erika Buenfil told how she was kicked out of a very expensive restaurant in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, when she was pregnant with her son Nicolás, just for being a single mother.
This situation made her feel quite bad, as she commented that at that moment she was very vulnerable due to her pregnancy and, apparently, a kind of trauma remained for a long time, as she avoided visiting that place again.
Erika Buenfil was one of the guests on the program From the Hill of the chair, of the comedian Franco Escamilla, and in one of the dynamics they did to reveal things that had happened to them, the protagonist of Love in silence She mentioned that she was discriminated against in a restaurant for being a single mom.
I arrived at a restaurant in Monterrey pregnant, and I am a single mother, of Nico, and first when they saw me arrive, some people complained and put me, they sat me behind a screen, because I did not set a ‘good example’; and many people said that they had to remove me because I was ‘non grata’ for being a single mother.
To the astonishment of those who were listening to her, the interpreter of Forgive me She said that she was accompanied by her mother when staff from the luxurious restaurant approached her table to ask her to leave the place.
The waiter or the captain, all of them were very sorry, but there were people in the restaurant who didn’t like me… so they say: ‘We’re very sorry, but you have to leave, because the people at that table or that table are uncomfortable because of the (bad) example’… and they kicked me out. They gave me my little bags with my meat and at the moment you are super vulnerable, you are very famous, your son, they take you by surprise.
The driver also mentioned that for many years she avoided going to the place, but one Christmas, when her son was grown up, she dared to go with her family. Ella erika she commented that she was very nervous when they arrived, although on that occasion she was treated very well and her diners were very nice.
In the distance, the protagonist of True loves He stated that this situation is something completely absurd, but he believes that perhaps the restaurant did not want to run it, but rather the diners who were there at that moment, who were surely his lifelong customers.