The childhood without toys and sweets of Florin Călinescu: “The first time I blew in the candles of my grandmother, I do not remember this with the cake”

Florin Călinescu, one of the most famous television people in Romania, spoke about his childhood full of shortcomings. “I didn't have toys, I didn't have sweets, chocolate, bicycles,” he said.

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The television man confessed, in the podcast of Bursucu, that he had a sad childhood, without toys, without cake on anniversaries. He bought his first train and the first bicycle only at the age of 32, according to Click!

“Mine broke up in my childhood, until I think of kindergarten, and it was a childhood on my own, that is, my father was a military man and he left at that time, after that he retired to the office, he made an accountant, my mother left when I was 4-5 years old, I met her when I was 18 years old, at 18, to see. (….) I learned to read, because Mrs. Vicky had some books from the late and I started to enjoy some stupid ones, at that time, but I had no others. I didn't have toys, I didn't have sweets, chocolate, bicycles. I bought a train at 32 years old and bicycle, those trains to assemble, but I read, I didn't understand anything, you realize, but I learned to read, Dostoevsky, Dickens”, Florin Călinescu told Bursucu's podcast.

The actor remembers blowing in candles for the first time, not those from a cake, but from the grandmother's cage.

“Poor (his childhood) in the sense that my father gave Mrs. Vichy the money of something clothes, that's why, that, many toys had appeared, and there were trams, some trucks, you cut into them, all. So at that time, when I was 4-5 years old, the toys were wooden. (…) I think that I was blowing in the candles of my grandmother's collar, who died the poor hit by a car, in Pitesti. I do not remember this thing with the cake, until I left Timișoara, at 18, honestly ”said Florin Călinescu.