All of them had told separately and at different times about their addictions to various substances and their exit from hell. But they had never been together and live talking about it: the actor Jorge Sanz, the singer Mai Meneses (now María Meneses) and the politician Andrea Levy, sat down this Thursday at a debate table on the program 59 seconds, that starting this week a new journey begins in La 2, to show its face and say that socially, there are many accepted habits.
Hosted by journalist Gemma Nierga, the debate addressed substance use by public figures who have found the path to sobriety after recognizing and overcoming their problems. The three agreed that talking about it “should not be a taboo” and in explaining to people the consequences of these addictions, but that there is also a way out.
Jorge Sanz said that although it seemed “frivolous” He was saved from a myocardial infarction that he suffered 11 years ago.. The doctor told him that he had to stop consuming “many things” that he did not specify, although the intake of subsequent heart medications caused another type of addiction that he has also had to deal with.
The actor confessed that he found himself when he managed to leave all this behind, although he insisted that these topics should not be turned into forbidden matters that cannot be talked about. And that addictions do not only occur to alcohol or drugs, “but also to those things that make you dependent, which can go from drinking yogurt all the time liquid to work without stopping”.
For her part, the singer María Meneses said that He hasn’t tried alcohol for more than 15 months, in his case beer.. And he feels much better, because he has regained control of his corporeality. In his case, this alcohol abuse began when he was in Nena Daconte.
The councilor of the Madrid City Council, Andrea Levy, once a trusted person of the PP leadership, recalled that an illness, fibromyalgia (a persistent pain that causes a lot of disability) led her to take pills. In particular, his ordeal has been falling into benzodiazepines, a painkiller that doctors prescribe in these cases “and to which it is very easy to get hooked.”
Chef Raül Balam, the son of cook Carmen Ruscalleda, who lived a real ordeal due to his addiction, was also interviewed on the program. In fact he published a book, Hookedin which he detailed why he came there and how he managed to get out, an experience that he summarized this Wednesday in 59 seconds accompanied by his mother.
For her part, Carlota Corredera pointed out that she has never used cocaine, but that she has a thousand addictions, among which he mentioned food. Yes, said the former presenter of save menow a member of 59 secondsthat “I have understood colleagues who have used cocaine”which seemed like a way to deal with the tension that television creates. “I think what they are doing is very brave,” he said in reference to the three guests of the program. “There is a lot of lack of empathy towards addicted people. I think there is a lot of stigmatization,” added the journalist.
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