Charles do Bronx fala sobre as dificuldades da sua infância | The Noite (10/05/21)

Look, you started fighting jiu-jitsu at the age of 12. 12 years old. And is it true that you had health problems? The doctor told you not to get involved in wrestling. Yes, when I was a boy, right? In the community, everyone knows, football was our passion as community boys, right? And because we lived in the

community, my mother always got my brother and me involved in sports, you know? Then I had a heart murmur and rheumatism in my bones. I have a heart murmur, uh, mitral valve prolapse. That's what...I have that too, but my bones so far...I've had both, right? And then...did you have rheumatism in your bones?

And so, I would stay hospitalized for three months , I would return, the doctor would discharge me to go home, spend two days with my family, and then I would return for another two or three months ; That plan took two years, didn't it? And they started...kind of me there and the doctor...I started taking injections

every 15 days. Oh my God, right ? Then it went to 20, 21 days. And the doctor told my mother, "Look, your son is not going to have a normal life now, do you understand?" "Yes, he won't be able to run around, he won't be able to do things, and so on." Except that during that

time, when I had already been home, I started doing jiu-jitsu and my mother said, well, whatever. And my mother was worried , like, she kind of wouldn't let us do anything. And so, I ended up putting penicillin on myself for a while, like that. And then I started training jiu-jitsu. But did the doctor authorize you to do

jiu-jitsu, or did you do it on your own? He authorized it. I, I, I went on my own . I. Did you go out of rebellion? Did you go partly out of rebellion? I used to talk more with my father, you know? I used to talk to my father a lot, didn't I? I