Mercedes Milá does not forget José Sámano: “He was the man of my life”

The veteran journalist Mercedes Dear He has opened up and talked about the love of his life on the soccer player’s talk show Joaquin Sanchez. For her Jose Samanowhom she names as her “husband” although they never got married, was “the man of my life”, as she assured.




The Catalan presenter recognized the importance of the producer and director in her life when she recalled the blow that Sámano’s death meant to her: “He died last year. For me it was a very hard blow. When he died, what a ‘pechá’ to cry I took it with me. I suffered a lot with his death”.

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The expert interviewer explained how she met the man with whom she shared a good part of her life: “I started doing newscasts as an intern at the age of 22. I was 26 years old on my first television show. It was the year I fell in love with José. It was my couple for 20 years. He was the director of my programs. He was a film, theater and television producer.”




As a communicator, she also recalled the negative aspects of mixing love and profession. He explained that “I tell everyone: ‘Don’t work with your partner, with your husband or wife.’ He made his films and his theaters and I made my programs in Barcelona. Until he came to help me. He was very generous that”, and it was then that the relationship began to fail: “We argued about the things of life every day. In what we had no problems before, suddenly it becomes a world and you feel very far away”.




Milá recalled how Sámano married immediately when they separated and she also immediately fell in love with him. Carlos Castillo, a Basque businessman who owns men’s fashion stores and is 16 years younger than Mercedes. Carlos broke off the relationship four years later, and this separation sank the journalist, as she explained on her day to Jordi Évole in another interview: “When he left my house, I went into a tailspin. It was ten days before the end of the first Big Brother in 2000 but, for the sake of survival, I didn’t tell anyone.”

Joaquín, the reality show host, recognized that with Carlos “I had a wonderful passionate relationship, but it lasted four years. I had a terrible time when it ended, but he was not the man of my life.”




The sister of Dear Lorenzo She confessed to the Betis soccer player that when she heard the news of José Sámano’s death, she broke down, because he was the man she loved the most: “I put my feet on the ground.”

Mercedes also acknowledged the bad times in the past when she was without work for four years after the break with Sámano, how Big Brother it saved her working life, and how she ended up burned out fifteen years after presenting the format, with depression and having to go to psychiatry to overcome the bump, on the recommendation of her brother, also a journalist and news presenter.




Milá acknowledged that sport saved his life after the depression, and that he now lives in the present: “We live today. Right now the most important thing for me is Scott and our interview.”