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He opened the game about how his relationship with his father changed after he was arrested for involvement with the Italian mafia. Carlos Alberto da Costa Moreira, the actor’s father, was arrested on December 14, 1994 for helping the mafia in the distribution of weapons and drugs in Rio de Janeiro.
According to the actor, he has lived 21 years of lie and to this day the relationship with his father is a constant theme in therapy. “It was a cut in my life, 21 years old that I lived a lie. I went from 100 to 0 as if I had hit the front wall, in 1 second,” Hassum said in an interview with Fantástico.
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The news of his father’s arrest was made by the actor’s brother and the whole family suffered the consequences of his actions as all family assets were blocked. .
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The actor was thrilled during the interview when talking about the whole situation. He also remembered a conversation he had with his father. “I spoke to my father one day, ‘Father, I forgive you. Because even in the mistake, you showed me the man I don’t want to be,” he said crying.
Carlos Alberto da Costa Moreira was arrested for 11 years and died in 2014.