[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] Whoa. HBO Max’s new four-part docuseries Menudo: Forever Young just dropped on Thursday, and it revealed some shocking new claims about the boy band Menudo.
If you don’t know, Menudo was one of the biggest Latin boy bands in history, featuring 32 different boys throughout its initial 20-year run.
That’s because “manager, producer, and father surrogate” Edgardo Díaz, as he’s described in the doc, preferred a “fountain of youth strategy” to the group.
Members were kicked out and replaced when they turned 16. They often also came from poor families who signed over most of the boy’s parental authority to the manager.
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