Honest. Open in channel. With the truth. Juan José Ballesta (35) is legal. This has been demonstrated in the interview that he has granted to Lo de Évole. The Goya winner for Best New Actor for El Bola (2000) has given a lesson in life to the entire collection of egos of his profession. At the end of February, he reappeared in Pasapalabra after 132 days without hearing from him, many media outlets pissed out of pot and it was even said that it was due to depression, so the actor explained what happened without mincing words: “I They were missing and I’ve always known where I’ve been. All I did was leave social media because I was tired. I was totally addicted and I was hooked.” Having to continuously show his private life exhausted him.
The depression actually happened when his partner since he was a child, Verónica Rebollo, and father of his only son, Juanjito, left him because love had ended for her. “I had a very bad time, I couldn’t conceive of life without her, I spent a long year and a half with depression, I got really bad, I was addicted and I should have gone to the psychologist. The feeling of having a squeeze on the chest all day and wanting to cry…” They broke up after fifteen years of relationship and now they get along very well. Despite that breakup, he is sincere when he remembers his father-in-law, José, who has already passed away: “He was like a father to me. I began to cry. Today I can’t talk about him. He always stood up for me, I felt very loved.”
However, the most important moment in his life that left everyone stunned was when he decided to leave the cinema after winning the Silver Shell at the San Sebastian Film Festival for 7 Virgins (2005). He was 18 years old and said enough: “I was very overwhelmed. I thought I was never going to be an actor again. I couldn’t go out, I couldn’t make my life, I took photos continuously – he qualifies that it was always due to people – I was very stressed, I couldn’t go out with my friends or my family, I wasn’t happy, I didn’t feel like I had a full life and I said to myself: ‘This is as far as we’ve come.” But he also clarifies, for those who consider it so: “I am not a broken toy”
A friend called me to do some tinkering “and I started working as a marble mason for 700 euros a month, I was calm doing something different, working twelve hours a day piecework (…) and if my friend Ángel who assembles ovens calls me “Well, I’m going to set up ovens. And if I have to go paint a flat, I go with my father. I’m very active, so I’m not doing anything at home and I’m going to do botch jobs.”
He puts the points on the i’s to those colleagues who go with airs of greatness: “I get along well with the entire industry, but with those uptight actors who go to the shoot and everything bothers them, they call their representative because they want to change a session when everyone we are pulling the car… Value what you have, we have a privileged life. What they would have to do is bend their backs”.
And it is said by someone who has won 40,000 or 50,000 euros for a film and who has also gone through difficult times because when you win “you give a lot of money to lower the bill on the floor, you buy a car…” and he adds: ” if I have, you have.” He has rejected abysmal amounts to go to Big Brother and Survivors, but he has continued in his line of not starring in scandals. “I have always wanted to be a good role model for my son Juanjito”, who is now 15 years old.
Life takes so many turns that he doesn’t know what to answer Jordi Évole when he asks him how he sees himself ten years from now: “In the field with my horses, my animals and a girl. I want to be a father again. Vero and I lost a child at three months, they did a curettage. A little piece of my heart left.”
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