Juan Carlos Garcia/ Reform Agency
Thursday, January 19, 2023 | 06:36
CDMX.- Chumel Torres is not concerned, but he is, about the lawsuit for non-material damage filed by Gloria Trevi against him for a tweet written last May alluding to human trafficking, an accusation that led the singer to be in court. prison twenty years ago.
The man from Chihuahua was oblivious to the controversy, but he did not lose his humor to talk about it, and even said that it can be a distraction for other more important issues.
“It seems ridiculous to me, it’s something that I thought was bluff, but when it started with the hate, I said don’t suck! And I said who? Don’t suck, the lawsuit is coming, and I asked my lawyers ‘hey, do I have to worry?’ And they told me ‘no, but you do have to take care of it’.
“You don’t have the slightest problem here, the case is damn solid. Don’t worry, you just have to attend to this lawsuit. The cool part is that it’s the first time I’ve said it like that: they told me ‘you didn’t break any laws’. Even the The international commission on human rights defends satire. I think filing a lawsuit for a meme or a tweet makes me ridiculous. If a joke of mine offends you, sorry, but it’s humor,” Torres said at a press conference .
This afternoon, José Manuel Torres Morales, a 40-year-old from Chihuahua, offered an appointment with the media to talk about El Blanco de Tus Burlas, the stand-up comedy tour that concludes with a performance at the Pepsi Center WTC on the 2nd of april.
He acknowledged that he had never had as much call in the media as today, where the main interest was to talk about what happens with the interpreter of Dr. Psiquiatra and the lawsuit filed yesterday by his lawyer Sergio Arturo Ramirez.
“They just mentioned Andrés Manuel (López Obrador) as the tyrant of the year in a magazine and we have a press room (almost full) for what happened to a pop singer and a comedian. And they are killing colleagues (journalists ) and nobody does anything,” he said.
Known for his style of satirical mockery and accounts on social networks of jokes and complaints in political matters, Chumel Torres affirmed that his situation with the Monterrey woman will be resolved by the lawyers, as an administrative matter and he is not concerned, since the panorama has already been painted for him.
“If there is a lawsuit, and justice attends, well, a lawsuit occurs when you break the law and that (in my case) did not happen,” he said.
And if, as the lawyer said yesterday, he needs an apology for the alleged moral damage caused by the tweet and his comments, he is willing to do so.
“If the lady wants an apology and my lawyer says to give it, then I say ‘yeah, sorry’.” But I’m not a fan of anyone, not even of Gloria Trevi’s songs.”
Although the identity of those who denounced her is not known, Gloria Trevi received notification of a lawsuit, for sexual crimes against minors (referring to the Trevi-Andrade case), last January in California, and yes, Chumel said, it is important.
“We continue on the side of the tweets, what is happening on this side, and what is awakening, again, I do not want to give you the wrong data, but they are sexual crimes in the United States. That is what is being addressed. It’s not here, what’s happening here is perfect
“What am I going to do? Take care of mine, what’s more, not even me, the lawyers. But if justice exists, then a judge will say ‘it was just a meme’. Let’s go to Los Angeles because there is a much more accusation What is happening is serious and there is a boat there. That is why we are more concerned. I think, and sometimes I get the impression, that it is even to cover this over there and it is gigantic,” he emphasized.
He even argued that if Trevi’s lawyer claims that she lost contracts due to her attacks, there is no way to verify it, and that if she has had to go to psychological therapy for her alleged attacks, she celebrates it since there have been other victims who surely, they did too.
“Therapy, because of the meme? Psychological damage there are very good therapists. I take therapy and one of many real or imaginary things comes out. It seems to me that the victims of this clan had much more depression, and they were much sadder and that is more important.
“But it is very good to go to therapy, and that (she) has lost a lot of money because of the memes? Well, that would have to be seen by the lawyers, there is no way to prove ‘look, Chumel spoke ill of you, forget about Coca Cola'”.
