Czech actor Richard Genzer gives smiles and jokes in the jury of the special 11th season of the show Let’s Dance. He has a dark period behind him, when he was not laughing. As the Czech portal reports, he got to the bottom. The difficult restart cost him a huge amount of strength, today is proof of that you can get out of even the most difficult life situations.
Genzer and Linda Finková got married in 2000, during which they had a daughter Viktorie and a son Matyáš. After twelve years, their paths diverged, the divorce itself became an endless process that lasted ten years. According to the actor, for this extremely long time, stormy disputes could not, but paradoxically indifference and inability to find space to definitively close the past.
He gradually lost control over his own life. “When Lída and I went apart, I left her house and then I stumbled around. I did not keep a crown, my financial literacy was at the level of a schoolboy. I just didn’t know how to handle money. The coronavirus came into play, I didn’t have a job for two yearsI didn’t shoot anything and I didn’t earn anything. In doing so, I had to pay a lot, which cost me all my savings, so I really hit rock bottom and had nothing.” he remembered the difficult times.
Depression and uncertainty consumed him so much that he just lay resignedly under the blanket at home for days. It was during this period that an unexpected impulse came. “When I said enough is enough, it can’t go on like this, get up and do something” he revealed.
Few would believe what he did at that moment. “I went to bake pancakes. I called my mom to give me the recipesbut the French ones require a slightly different dough and a different procedure. I tried to watch the baking from YouTube and I went by trial and error. I tried it for so long that I somehow got better at it,” he explained the process by which he learned to make the perfect dessert.
Subsequently, he turned to a friend with a request to rent a stand, who agreed and thus started a completely new profession. Without an iota of false ego or fear of humiliation, he traded the television cameras for a hot plate. “It gave me that one should have something saved in the pillow. In other words, don’t go all the way and don’t say to yourself, hey, I’ll treat myself, because I’ll earn something again, I’ll shoot tomorrow, I also have a business in a month, and then I’ll definitely have something else.” described a life lesson.
Until then, he considered himself to be a handyman who does not care about manual work and would definitely not describe himself as a handyman. His patience and determination ultimately led him astray. He discovered that even making pancakes can be a way to self-esteem. “That’s when I proved to myself that when I come to my senses, pick up my butt and really put myself into something, I suddenly do well. It probably sounds pathetic, but my lesson from crisis development is – get up and go for it,” he added.
