Adriana Abenia I had many things to tell. And, instead of leaving them by the way, he has captured them in life now. In her new book, the presenter recounts the raw episodes that have marked her personal and professional life, such as the fact that she was a victim of sexual abuse when she was covering an event for Save me. Furthermore, he says that he lied about his departure from the program in order to protect the production company, La Fábrica de la Tele.
The 39-year-old Aragonese actress states in her autobiography some experiences that she needed to let go of to, in some way, “close wounds.” Many of them were traumatic and changed her way of being forever. She especially remembers an episode in Medina del Campo, when she was covering an event about the Royal House, which she was forced to hide so that it would not affect her professional career. “For me, what happened in that town was terrible,” she says in an interview with The confidential.
The one from Zaragoza does not speak verbatim in its pages of any sexual assault or abuse. However, after being asked about these terms, she does not deny having been a victim of this type of violence. “I do not mention by name what happens to me that day so as not to generate expectations around that night that changed my life,” she clarifies, pointing out that she “simply” narrates “how the events happened.”
“What happened in that town was terrible for me. If she got so fat because of a kiss, imagine what I say in the prologue… it’s serious. It was the trigger for what made me become a completely different,” he explains, referring to the scandal carried out by Luis Rubialesformer president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, after kissing the player Jenni Hermoso.
The presenter suffered a stroke
The day after what happened, Abenia suffered a stroke: “I decide to keep quiet because I think that if I reveal what happened to me, no one will want to hire me. I feel so fragile, so vulnerable… I feel that at the beginning of my career the trust that so many people have placed in me is going to disappear.
“I want it to serve as a common thread to understand the dimension of what happens next,” she maintains, convinced that the time to talk about her past was now: “I consider that life is space and time and it is precisely now, when after “After going through workshops and having healed many wounds, I am able to return to the past. Before it would have been unthinkable. If I am honest, I never thought I would tell my story, but I have managed to get rid of an important weight and those gaps that I had in my life.” .
Abenia lied about her dismissal in ‘Sálvame’
In the book, Abenia admits that she lied about leaving Save me, where she worked as a reporter, but “with a collaborator contract.” She explains that she did it to protect the format and to heal herself: “I didn’t lie out of shame. It was out of gratitude. Maybe I should have been more honest because many projects fell through because of that lie. It was so bad that I said I needed face other challenges and evolve, a falsehood that somehow pulled at me.
“My health was so bad, I felt insecure, I suffered panic attacks… I lived so dehumanized that I didn’t want to tell what was happening to me and make people feel sorry for me. If I told it, maybe it would all be over, I would have had to go back to Zaragoza and everything I had achieved would have been of no use,” he points out. Not even Paolo Vasile was aware of what had happened. When he called her some time later to offer her new projects: “You’re going to find out now from the publication of the book if I send it to Italy.”
“They had placed a lot of hope in me and I disappointed them when they read that I had left Sálvame so as not to pigeonhole me. They believed the lie… You learn from everything and even all of that was useful to me,” he explains. And what really happened was, in her words, that they fired her. Her role was eroding along with her relationship with the program director at the time, Raul Prietoweak – the complete opposite of what happened to him with Carlota Correderawith which he connected without problems.
At the office they told him that “he had exhausted his character.” “It was a complicated meeting because we didn’t expect it. I went with my representative at that time, Jose Muro (the same as that of Jorge Javier), and what hurt me the most was that they didn’t let me say goodbye. I owed the audience one last day. And despite everything ugly that happened, I decided to protect them tooth and nail because in the end they had given me everything. Save me It has offered me the best and worst moments of my life, but there are defeats that must be celebrated with all my soul and I never tuned into Telecinco again in that slot.” The program contacted her to be present at her farewell, the past month of June, but Abenia refused.