M. Bertulis visited Renata Šakalytė’s tv3.lt podcast “Pasikalbėkim”, where he openly spoke about his famous brother for the first time.
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When the conversation in the podcast turned to family, Mantas said that he did not have a male role model in his childhood – his father simply did not participate in his life.
“Like many, I am an accident. My biological father betrayed his family with my mother, and that’s how I came to be. However, he does not exist in my life – I have probably only seen him once, in court. He has not paid a single litas, he hid his income, so for me, that’s a low level. There’s nothing to talk about,” M. Bertulis said in the “Pasikalbėkim” podcast.
In the “Pasikalbėkim” podcast, a long-hidden and little-known detail emerged – it turns out Mantas has a brother who is a well-recognized face in Lithuania.
“My brother – although I don’t want to call him that, but our father is the same – is tennis coach Simas Kučas. I told this information to “Radistai” 12 years ago, and later this news reached him,” M. Bertulis said.
Mantas stated that after the news spread, he received a message from Simas.
“He has written me only one message in his life. It was in 2013: ‘Hello, know that neither I nor Siga (Simas’s sister) are your brother or sister, so stop spreading these rumors. I hope you understand and stop talking nonsense. You’d better go meet your father, and your grandparents too’,” Mantas shared Simas’s message in the “Pasikalbėkim” podcast.
The man stated that he himself does not consider S. Kučas his brother, as this word means a much deeper, closer role in a person’s life to him.
“I also don’t say that he is my brother, because brothers probably play a different role in a person’s life. However, this person just seems arrogant to me, and I don’t want to have anything to do with him. He once publicly tagged me and my father during his drinking. After that, as far as I saw, my father blocked me on Facebook,” M. Bertulis said.
When asked by Renata Šakalytė how he generally feels about this situation, Mantas shrugged, accepting reality as it is: “I feel normal, because I simply can’t imagine how it could be otherwise.”
