«I have suffered from speech aphasia. The brain MRI doesn’t come back well. My world upside down. They admit me to the seventh floor and I decide to take the secret with me. Because, who is going to want to hire someone as vulnerable as me?
From that stroke that he never called by name, not even now, 13 years and 25 days ago today. Barely six months later, Adriana Abenia, the pizpireta reporter of the incipient Sálvame who dared to question the then Princess Letizia face to face, disappeared from Telecinco without saying goodbye.
What happened in that period of time, also what triggered the hospital admission that changed her life, was kept by the blonde from Zaragoza under seven keys and a lie, lest she lose her great opportunity on television. Become a mother, approaching 40 and with a life much further away from the spotlight but much healthier and happier, Abenia pours all that into a memoir with a paradoxical name, Life Now (ed. Vergara), and a redemptive background, which does not revanchist: «I have no thirst for revenge. “I have forgotten, I have forgiven and I have more than overcome it, otherwise I would not have been able to write a word.”
I have no thirst for revenge. I have forgotten, I have forgiven and I am more than over it
My physique has opened doors for me, but it has also hurt me: many times I have had to show more
Adriana Abenia approached her autobiography like someone starting a diary, as if no one else was going to read it. At least, at times. But her destiny had a curious coincidence in store for her: at the same time she was writing the last words of her manuscript, the protagonists of Sálvame said goodbye to the audience forever. She didn’t watch it, she didn’t tune in to the show again after she left. She also did not participate in that finale to which she was invited “as a matter of principle.”
Perhaps also a result of destiny, the next appointment that the presenter has marked on the agenda after this interview is on Telecinco.
