Belén Esteban’s return to ‘Sálvame’: for the first time she says she has been a drug addict

It was one of the most anticipated returns to the set of save me diary. After breaking her tibia and fibula live at the end of April, the town’s princess has returned to her afternoon show. The first days, yes, she will have to go around the set a series of times every hour to favor her recovery.

Bethlehem Esteban has ensured that “everything” is “fine”. However, he is realistic: “I’m not going to run away… I warn you”. The talk show host has also talked about some collaborators who have been in the news these days, such as Rafa Mora and Miguel Frigenti. He has also given his opinion on possible new signings of the program, since on Monday afternoon they will reveal which new collaborator enters the squad.

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Adela Gonzalez has put on the table the names of some ‘enemies’ such as Oblivion Antswho this weekend gave an interview at the Deluxeand of Sofia Suescun, which in 2019 provoked Belén on social networks. Maite Galdeano’s daughter then alluded to a problem that Esteban had years ago.




In this sense, Belén has said: “There are things that they know here and I’m not going to go into any of that. They know what I think, but if they have to come there are things that… I have it clear”. Later, and for the first time so clearly, she has confessed that she was a drug addict: “I have it clear. And I have to say that I have been a drug addict for fourteen years. I am a new and renewed woman.”

Jesulín de Ubrique’s ex is proud of her evolution: “I live in a townhouse with a staircase, but if I lived in a pond it would be my problem, because at least I have something and nobody knows what I have. But I am very happy with the years I’ve been working. I can go with my head held high, I haven’t stolen or killed, what I have is mine and my daughter’s. And keep buying gazpacho, which is very good,” he said.

Bethlehem’s addiction to drugs

“I am clean inside and out,” she acknowledged in 2013 at the Deluxe, when he returned to television after a time away due to his problems. In ambitions and reflectionsher autobiography, said: “I spent the day lying in an armchair without wanting anything, every time I got a line I thought of my father, what he would say to me”.

Belén has spoken many times publicly about her “problem”, about “when that happened to me”, but until quite some time has passed she has had a hard time pronouncing terms like “cocaine”, “drug” or “dependency”.

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One day in 2014, his situation was so dire that some people close to him considered that it was a matter of life or death and that something had to be done immediately, since his family and those responsible for the programs where he worked did not see the seriousness of the situation or they looked the other way. Only her best friends Marivi y TinaThey were aware of the magnitude of the problem.




Finally, in the office of a psychiatrist specializing in drug addiction, Belén herself, Tono Sanchishis manager and then friend, Esteban’s mother and brother, and those responsible for the production company he worked for.

The doctor had assured that the treatment should be done en bloc and had warned: “Her closest people have to be there. Some to help her closely. Others, to leave her alone. Each one of them is essential,” concluded the doctor, at the end of the meeting that lasted about two hours and in which everyone participated.

And the therapy started. Belén Esteban left the television, determined to get out of her nightmare and start a hard battle against herself. The following months were not easy, on the contrary. But she ended up getting it. In 2015 she came back through the big door and was the winner of Big Brother VIP 3. her ex-husband, Fran Alvarezwith whom she was married between 2008 and 2012, died at the age of 43 in February 2020. Her body was found lifeless at her home in Madrid.

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