Sun Jun 29 07:00:00 UTC 2025: ## Florinda Meza Defends Controversial “Defects” Comment About Chespirito’s Children

**Mexico City, Mexico** – Veteran actress Florinda Meza is addressing renewed controversy over a resurfaced interview from over two decades ago where she referred to the six children of her late husband, Roberto Gómez Bolaños “Chespirito,” as his “great defects.”

The comment, made during a 2004 appearance on Chilean TV show “Pasiones,” has ignited debate online, prompting Meza, 76, to offer clarification. In the interview, when questioned about the beginning of her relationship with Gómez Bolaños, Meza stated he had “seven great defects, six children and a wife.”

Responding to a question on Instagram about whether the statement was impulsive or intentional, Meza explained on June 26th that her words were taken out of context. “Surely they asked me about the time when I didn’t pay attention to Roberto,” she wrote. “I saw him as a perfect man, and those would be his only ‘defects’ to tell him yes, despite his insistence.”

Meza emphasized that Gómez Bolaños, creator of iconic characters like El Chavo del Ocho and El Chapulín Colorado, deeply loved his children. “It is very easy to take things out of context, especially now. Roberto loved his children and would not have been with someone who did not respect them. It was a way of speaking, responding to a specific question,” she asserted.

During the original interview, Gómez Bolaños playfully challenged Meza’s characterization of his children as “defects,” saying, “No, no, no, how defects? They are six wonderful children, how can they be defects?” To which Meza responded, “If they were mine, they would be wonderful, but not being mine, they were a problem and a defect.”

Meza also revealed in the same interview that Gómez Bolaños was “very unfaithful” to his wife, Graciela Fernández, with whom he had his six children. She claimed she initially resisted his advances, fearing being “one more on his list.”

Florinda Meza and Roberto Gómez Bolaños began their relationship in 1976, while he was still married. They eventually married in a private ceremony in 2004, remaining together until his death in 2014. Meza’s recent statement aims to clear up lingering misunderstandings surrounding her relationship with Chespirito and his family.

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