The 攻撃を受けやすい transgender woman cruelly 偉業／利用するd for a dating show: How Miriam Rivera was 軍隊d to 逃げる Mexico after an 'exorcism' ordered by her father who did not 受託する her 身元

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Miriam Rivera became known as the world's first transgender reality TV 星／主役にする after her 外見 on Sky's There's Something About Miriam in 2003.?

The Mexican model was just 21 with one 注目する，もくろむ on fame and a glamorous lifestyle, when she decided reality TV could be her ticket to a better life.?

But the 前提 of the show saw six men competing to 勝利，勝つ the model's heart without knowing she was transgender?and it was incredibly 議論の的になる.

At the time she was preyed on by 生産者s, Miriam was in an 極端に 攻撃を受けやすい position, having?run away from home at 14 to escape her father who tried to exorcise her because she was transgender.?

Thirteen years after the show 空気／公表するd, she was 設立する dead in an 明らかな 自殺.?

Miriam Rivera was the 'world's first' transgender reality TV 星／主役にする - but she was in a 攻撃を受けやすい position during her TV fame after a troubled しつけ

New Channel 4 文書の Miriam: Death Of A Reality 星／主役にする 調査するs Miriam's life in more 詳細（に述べる） and sheds light on her troubled しつけ in Mexico, which left her 攻撃を受けやすい and alone.?

The programme features interviews with Miriam's mother Maria and father Fernando, who still 辞退するs to 受託する her true 身元 as a woman - even after her 悲劇の death in 2019.??

'My sister was 偉業／利用するd, then abandoned,' Miriam's youngest brother Ariel Mendoza says.?

'She was alone in a foreign country. Miriam was a 堅い girl but it broke her. I really think they used her. The boys got more help than Miriam.'?

After they 設立する out the truth, some of the contestants tried to 告訴する and make sure it never 空気／公表するd, feeling they had been duped by 生産者s. They never saw Miriam again.?

Miriam was born in Hermosillo in Mexico on January 20, 1981 - but her しつけ was far from 平易な and, by the time of the show, she was 攻撃を受けやすい and open to 開発／利用.?

指名するd Hugo Cesar, she was 割り当てるd male at birth but felt different to her brothers, enjoying playing with dolls while they liked sports.?

She started taking hormones at just 11 years old. At school, she was いじめ（る）d by the other children and called homophobic 中傷するs.?

Miriam was born in 1981 in Mexico - but always felt different to her three brothers (pictured in the background)

Miriam's father?Fernando Mendoza (pictured) tried to exorcise her, which led her to 逃げる Mexico as a young girl

Miriam's father Fernando Mendoza couldn't 受託する her new 身元 and was 'upset' when he saw a skirt, heels and wig in a box under her bed.?

Speaking in the 文書の, he says: 'I was upset, 完全に. No one 手配中の，お尋ね者 to have a child who was gay. I believed that it could be cured, that there was a m edicine for it, a 治療.'

Shockingly, he brought in a 大臣 to the family home to 'exorcise' the 'demons' from Miriam's 団体／死体 and pleaded with god for a 解答.?

It was a traumatising experience for Miriam, whose family 解任するd the ordeal, 説 she was 押し進めるd 負かす／撃墜する and 叫び声をあげるd at.?

'You cannot stop it at that time, we were in shock, what is happening,' 解任するd her brother Ariel, while mum Maria remembered how '脅すd' Miriam was at the time.?

Even now, five years on from her death in 2019, Fernando has not 受託するd Miriam's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to be a woman.?

He said:?'I never 受託するd the 指名する Miriam, I always called him Hugo.?

'I was proud of my first son because he was a bit more feisty and Hugo no, he preferred to play with the girls. He didn't play his 役割 as a man.'?

Miriam's mother, Maria, also appeared in the 文書の from their home in Mexico, 説 that her daughter was always a 'sensitiv e' child

In 1995, 老年の just 14, Miriam fled her home in Mexico for Tijuana on the US 国境 in a desperate 企て，努力，提案 to 改善する her life.?

にもかかわらず 存在 underage, she worked in a club と一緒に her の近くに friend Daniella Real and began 収入 thousands of dollars a night.?

She then （機の）カム to the UK, where she joined transgender girl 禁止（する）d 速度(を上げる） Angels, where she was spotted by TV 生産者 Remy Blumenfeld from Brighter Pictures, a 子会社 of Endemol.

Blumenfeld would go on to be the (n)役員／(a)執行力のある 生産者 of There's Something About Miriam.??

Away from her family, Miriam 手配中の，お尋ね者 a 発射 at fame and to be finally recognised for her true self by others.?

'I was 21 and living in New York at the time. Out of the blue I got a call from a British television company,' Miriam's 発言する／表明する can be heard 説 in the 文書の.

'The catch though was that the beautiful woman would not be all that the guys think she is. It was too good a chance to 行方不明になる.'?

But her friends and family members believe that TV (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs took advantage of Miriam at a time when she was 攻撃を受けやすい from a tumultuous しつけ.?

Miriam Rivera was just 21 when she appeared on Sky's reality dating show There's Something About Miriam

This is the moment Tom Rooke, the 勝利者 of the There's Something About Miriam, was told she was 現実に transgender

They also see There's Something About Miriam as a 可能性のある factor in 主要な to her death 13 years later.??

'I 行方不明になる her,' says Daniella. 'Maybe she would still be with us if she never did that show.'?

'She was upset when they [the boys] 告訴するd the show,'?Ariel 追加するd.

'The 圧力（をかける） trashed her. People 非難するd her. Some still do. I recently saw a Facebook reel 説 "Look who fooled s ome guys on TV by pretending to be a woman".?

'After the show, Miriam went 負かす／撃墜する and 負かす／撃墜する. She looked sad whenever it was について言及するd. Maybe she was ahead of her time but I hope her story teaches 寛容.'?

After the show 空気／公表するd, years of 拷問 from the マスコミ and the public followed Miriam.?

批評 of the show 含むd a comment from the British 医療の 定期刊行物, which wrote: 'The 前提 was not a 祝賀 of transgender people's lives.?

'It was designed to elicit horror from the winning contestant, discovering that his dream date had a penis.'

Miriam 苦しむd with 拒絶する／低下するing mental health after the show - and a terrible 強襲，強姦 in 2007 損失d her 信用／信任 even その上の.?

Her friends have 以前 spoken out about an 強襲，強姦 in 2007 that saw Miriam be 押し進めるd out of the fourth-storey window of her New York apartment. She later disappeared for six months, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing she had been kidnapped 銃をつきつけて.??

New Channel 4 文書の Miriam: Death Of A Reality 星／主役にする is 調査するing her life and rise to fame in more 詳細（に述べる）

Miriam was known as the 'world's first transgender reality 星／主役にする' and went on to appear on Big Brother Australia

While past 報告（する）／憶測s have 述べるd the 落ちる as an 事故, a friend of the 星／主役にする, Jeanett ?rtoft, has in past 明らかにするd to the Daily Mail Australia that it was an 強襲，強姦, 説 that 'some masked men threw [Miriam] out from the fifth 床に打ち倒す [of her New York apartment] and she broke almost every bone in her 団体／死体'.

Nikki Exotica - known in the trans community for her music - who was の近くに with Miriam at that period of her life, told the podcast how horrific Miriam's 傷害s were.

'She was in a whole 団体／死体 cast, half her 長，率いる was shaved, she had brain 外科, she had hemorrhaging, her whole 前線 of her forehand was 割れ目d open so they had stitc hes, she had her 武器 in a sling, she had her 脚s in a sling - she was 不正に messed up and she was in a 昏睡 for, I think, five days before I 設立する her,' she 明らかにする／漏らすd.

決定するd to move on, Miriam spent most of her time after the attack in Europe, never again engaging in showbiz or music - which was her dream before - and instead getting caught up in the party scene.

She was, during this time, also understood to have taken up sex work to 支払う／賃金 off hospital 法案s, which racked up.

Miriam was 設立する tragically dead in her mother's apartment in Mexico in 2019.?

Though 当局 （人命などを）奪う，主張するd it was a 自殺, her の近くに friends and family - 含むing her husband Daniel Cuervo, believe she was 殺人d.?

Mr Cuervo has in the past told Daily Mail Australia that he believed his wife's death may have been 'passed off' as a 自殺 after she 辞退するd to 受託する work as a 売春婦.

'On the morning of February 5, Miriam called me [in New York] from Mexico, telling me she was feeling sick and vomiting 血, so I told her to get to the hospital,' he said, 解任するing the day Miriam died.

'She called me again before leaving the hospital at 12pm and that was the last time we spoke.'

Sky later 除去するd There's Something About Miriam from its 壇・綱領・公約s and apologised

There's Something About Miriam has been 広範囲にわたって 述べるd as 'cruel' and 'exploitative', and a 類似の 判型 is yet to be 再生するd anywhere in the world. Miriam pictured in 2004

At 2pm, Miriam was 設立する dead by hanging at her home in Hermosillo, Mexico.

When Mr Cuervo learned of Miriam's death, he enquired about the 可能性 of 飛行機で行くing the 団体／死体 to New York.

He was 知らせるd the 団体／死体 had already been 火葬するd, leavin g no 適切な時期 to 成し遂げる an 検視.

Mr Cuervo （人命などを）奪う，主張するd an unknown male called him when he was trying to arrange Miriam's funeral and said: 'Don't come 支援する to Mexico or we'll kill you too.'

However her brother Ariel Mendoza and friend Daniella Real 株 their 見解（をとる）s in the Channel 4 文書の, and believe she took her own life.?

Real believed the reality show gave Miriam fame, which was 消極的な and 永久的に 害（を与える）d her. 一方／合間 Mendoza believes she was struggling with 不景気.?

The programme 示すs 20 years since the 初めの reality show, and five years since Miriam's death.?

Sky later apologised and 除去するd There's Something About Miriam from its 壇・綱領・公約s.?

The show was 初めは meant to 空気／公表する in November 2003 but 合法的な 訴訟／進行s stopped it 公表／放送 until February 2004.??

The men 申し立てられた／疑わしい 共謀 to commit 性の 強襲，強姦, defamation, 違反 of 契約, and personal 傷害 in the form of psychological and emotional 損失.

'The Truth', the second episode of Miriam: Death Of A Reality 星／主役にする 空気／公表するs tonight at 9pm on Channel 4.?