“He was losing blood and the bullet was close to his brain”

Leiva returned this Thursday, October 16, to The anthill to present his new documentary, Until I run out of voiceand ended up starring in one of the most shocking moments of the season. In an intimate and sincere conversation with Pablo Motosthe Madrid musician recounted an unknown episode from his childhood: the day he lost an eye after being shot at point-blank range when he was barely twelve years old.

“They shot me very close with a gun and I lost my eye“Leiva said, leaving the audience in silence. The story will be part of his documentary film, directed by two of his friends, in which the artist reviews the lights and shadows of his life, from his beginnings in Olías del Rey to his consecration as one of the most beloved voices of Spanish pop-rock.

The musician explained that he had never wanted to address the subject out of pure morbidity, but because – as he said – it is linked to his relationship with fame and public exposure: “I got used to them looking at me because they shot me very close and I lost my eye. The guys would look at me and whisper, and then when I was in the band I felt a kind of familiarity with it. “I was already trained to be observed,” he reflected.

Pablo Motos, visibly surprised, intervened to connect the story with the artist’s public life: “So Do you relate the whispering of ‘Look, he doesn’t have an eye’ to the ones you get when you’re famous“, the presenter stressed. “Yes, it served as training for me. “They looked at me because I had something strange,” Leiva responded, taking away the drama of the event.

Despite the severity of the accident, the musician assured that he did not experience it as a trauma: “I was lucky that, because of the imagination that you had been shot, there was no room for ridicule. It was something serious. I didn’t experience it as a trauma. “I left there and started playing,” he recalled calmly.

The artist too He revealed the phrase that a hospital orderly told him while they were taking him to the operating roomwords that he has never forgotten and that helped him face the situation: “When they took me to the operating room for surgery, I was losing blood and the pellet was close to my brain. The orderly asked me what my name was and then he told me: ‘You are the luckiest person I know, because of all the organs you can lose, the eye is the only one that does not change you.”.

The reflection impressed Pablo Motos, who wanted to share a personal experience to underline the importance of the words one hears before entering the operating room. “I had not realized until today how important the last thing they tell you when you are going to have surgery is,” confessed the presenter, remembering his own biceps injury: “When I went into the operating room and thought I was left crippled, my doctor told me: ‘This is done.’ and I relaxed”.

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The exchange between the two left one of those silences that are difficult to see in The anthill. A moment of television truth, without artifice, in which Leiva’s personal story crossed the screen. Far from seeking compassion, the musician took advantage of the interview to vindicate his ability to adapt: “I had to get used to the distances because you don’t have three dimensions, you crash a lot… But I got ahead.”

Con Until I run out of voiceBread offers an honest look at his life and the scars—physical and emotional—that have made him the artist he is today. And he does it with the same sensitivity that this Thursday moved Pablo Motos and the entire audience of The anthill.

Leiva returned this Thursday, October 16, to The anthill to present his new documentary, Until I run out of voiceand ended up starring in one of the most shocking moments of the season. In an intimate and sincere conversation with Pablo Motosthe Madrid musician recounted an unknown episode from his childhood: the day he lost an eye after being shot at point-blank range when he was barely twelve years old.