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Big Brother player Themis Kanellos spoke about the hardships he went through in the “hell” of his home during his childhood and the “evil” of strangers.
“When I was little and realized that I was gay, it didn’t seem strange to me. I didn’t have a taboo, Ok, you like boys. I found an inner strength: you will be alone, your parents will fight with you, maybe your friends, your outside environment but you will be fine.»
But the reaction of his parents when he was only 12 years old, turned the house into “hell” as he puts it. “I cried, it was very bad, I went to school and I didn’t want to go. All the kids were waiting for the bell to ring at 2 to leave, I didn’t want it to ring. I wanted to stay in school. Because at school he was more receptive than at home. “For some, school was hell, for me it was my own home,” says Themis, now 18.
As recounted on SKAI’s Dot program, his parents tried to take him to a psychologist to “change” him: “My parents had something else in mind, that ‘our son is confused’ and they took me to the psychologist to” to ‘change’ something which is obviously stupid. “
As he recalls, the psychologist he spoke with had told him “I don’t understand why you came here, you are a very good boy, very calm, you have no problem. Your parents had to come here. »
Have you ever left your house?
«I’ve been fired, if that’s the question. I did not go alone. I walked down the street, I sat on the stairs of the warehouse, I stayed with my friends whenever I could, my grandmother, my uncle … “
How did you get back?
“They called me, especially my mom, she would cry, she often made my dad call me, and there was no way I could stop them from crying, getting angry and causing trouble – because it is a problem to be 15 years old and not have a place to stay. Being in the cold, not having money, not having to eat and this is done for a week. Its a big problem “.
After the game, communication was partially reestablished: “Mainly with my mother of course, but it doesn’t matter, that matters.” She called him, as he puts it, after he left the Big Brother house: “Amazingly, she took me. I see a call that says “Mom.” And I only hear my mother cry. Be so happy for the character that I showed in the house ”.
He is not thinking of going back: “I am not going to return home, I cannot go back for many reasons in relation to my father, I have already turned 18, we had said that I will leave as soon as I turn 18”. It happened a little shorter. “Now I am looking for a house and I still live with a friend.”
What upset your parents?
“We just realized that I was gay. They were ‘shocked’ by it. They spent a year or two dealing with it. That [χρειάζομαι] psychologist. Then when I started to like makeup, the theme moved there. “Do you want to change your gender?” Other questions. I was 15 years old trying to explain to them that I like makeup but I feel good in my body. PiI was trying to explain so many things to 15-year-olds, to 45-year-old parents.. When I was 17 I was both gay and made up. I said that publicly on Youtube. They began to think about what people would say, that the neighborhood knew. What will my grandmother, my uncle say … “
He says he feels he achieved his goal by the example he set through reality TV. “Since I needed to get into a reality show to do the obvious,” I achieved what I wanted, he says, referring to messages from children and parents. “To help even a person feel better about himself.”
“Tell me what a fool on the street will tell you”
When asked if she wants to say something to children living in similar situations, Themis Kanellos says: “At some point it must end, loving yourself is not something different in a bad way. No matter what society tries to go through, no matter what an idiot tells you on the street, he can find you. They just don’t have to deal with anything and are dealing with you. They take out their taboos and stereotypes about you. All the evil.
They have given me bad adjectives, very bad. You don’t react. It is unpleasant. Imagine a man in his 40s driving his car and cursing a 15-year-old who just likes makeup.. How long has this man been dead? And it has nothing to do with trying to reduce the other to appear more manly. That what; I, who wear lipstick, do I touch your manhood? LOL! »
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