Television is an ecosystem where lights are as dazzling as scorching. The fame and money that flow suddenly and without control burn many more than the worst of fires. Rosa Benito (Alicante, February 4, 1956) has four children with Amador Mohedano. It was a set star, he exhibited, gained a lot of money for his role and suffered the inconveniences of wild popularity. Known for having been married to Rocío Jurado’s brother and for having been sister -in -law of the late Chipiona singer, he participated in reality Survivors y Big Brother VIP In 2016. Broken toys of the uncontrolled, tempting and profitable television fame have in whoever was sister -in -law of Rocío Jurado an example of a manual. “The brain made me ‘Clinc’ and uncontrolled me,” he said. This Friday on one of those sets that pay well. One of those that has seen many figures parade that, in their passage through the screen, left a fleeting flash or a lasting flame. In that cosmos, Rosa Benito It has been more than a media character. It has been a woman who became collateral myth, orbiting the greatness of Rocío Jurado, “The biggest.” But, like the satellites that reach their autonomy, Rosa not only survived the stigma of being “the sister -in -law of”, but forged a history of its own, fueled of lights and shadows, errors and rebirths.
After reaching his first 25,000 days, at 69, Rosa Benito has returned to the public eye, but has done it from another place. More serene, safe, renewed. “Coming to years is life, and I want to live”, Declared on Friday! Rosa has reinvented so many times that she could give a chair about how to resurface when everything seems lost. “My heart is alive, Pum Pum does,” he said, making it clear that the scars of the past do not stop her, but drive her forward.
“I separated in love with my husband”
There was a time when Rosa Benito was an appendix of Rocío Jurado. Sister -in -law and hairdresser of an eternal legend. A shadow that combed the star, collected the remains of applause and cleaned the dressing room. She was a young mother with twins in her arms and an uncertain future when Rocío, with her overwhelming presence, invited her to be part of her world. “Working with Rocío Jurado was not a luxury, it was a resistance test,” remember. The diva, imposing on stage, demanded the same behind the scenes. But Rosa, who had grown between the adversities of her childhood, never complained. Her sister, just a teenager, stayed with her children so she could follow Rocío for the scenarios of the world. “If my sister hadn’t been, I couldn’t have done it,” confessed. And, for Rosa, the family was always a spine.
The relationship with Rocío Jurado with his brother’s wife was a deep, complex, almost maternal bond. “Rocío was my mother, my sister, my friend”, He says, evoking those years of complicity and delivery. But also demystifies any idea of parasitism. “I worked, I was curricated. Nobody kept me”sentenced vehemence. The years with “the biggest” were both a gift and a challenge. Rocío was the gravitational nucleus that kept the United Family, but when that force disappeared, the cracks began to become visible.
Family conflicts that arose after the death of the artist and hurricane save me
After the goodbye of the jury everything changed. Family conflicts marked a before and after in Rosa’s life. Inheritances, emotional distances and veiled reproaches ended up disintegrating that clan that had shared nights of successes and cooking afternoons in Chipiona. “If she had been alive, she would have given a swipe and nobody would have done anything“, says sadly. But Rocío’s death left a vacuum that nobody knew how to fill. And then came The hurricane save me. Rosa entered the program like who enters an without a compass. He did it out of necessity, for a marriage that had collapsed and a suffocating economic situation. His passage through that set was an entry of money, a lot of popularity, and a roller coaster excitesL: laughs, tears, betrayals, live catharsis. “Being in prostitution is not selling your body, it is doing things for money you don’t want to do. And I did it,” I recognized. It was a place of pain and learning, where Rosa touched background and learned to get up.
He Amador Mohedano divorce, father of his children and the man of his life for 40 years, it was a devastating blow. “I separated in love with my husband,” confesses. But that love, which was once refuge, had become an emotional prison. Years later, Rosa talks about him with a mixture of nostalgia and determination. There is no grudge, only the recognition that both followed different paths. “He is the father of my children and an important person in my life”, It says with a serenity that seems the result of a long process of reconciliation with itself.
They married when Rosa was barely 21, in 77. They gave themselves the ‘Yes, I want’ in the Temple of the Holy Faz of Alicante. His romance began because Rocío Jurado hired Rosa as her personal stylist. Rosa and Amador were married 35 years. Fruit of their marriage four children were born: the twins Rosario and Fernando, Salva and Amador. In 2012, between infidelity speculation by Rocío Jurado’s brother, his marriage is over.
On his trip to independence, Rosa had to learn such basic things as putting gas or getting money from a cashier. “I didn’t even know looking at the bank’s extracts,” admits. But that initial vulnerability gave way to a woman who discovered that she could fend for herself. Today, Rosa Benito is an actress, something that she would never have imagined. “Who was going to tell me that I was going to do theater. It’s a blessing,” he says excitedly. The theater, life, their grandchildren. Everything is part of a bright present that contrasts with the emotional winters it went through. Because Rosa does not hide Your battle against depression, His entry into a psychiatric center and his struggle to recover mental peace. “The brain made me ‘Clinc’ and uncontrolled me,” he says. “In those dark moments of my life, when I played back With you can nobody, “he said about his suicide attempt and his entry into a center.
But in that chaos he found the fortress to rebirth. “My psychiatrist told me that I would always be a sick person, like who is ludopath or drug addict. But I decided that no one else would hurt me.”
Today, Rosa Benito is a woman who looks in the mirror and recognizes. A woman who has understood that self -love is the strongest pillar on which to build any life. A woman who, after being satellite, shadow, comb, wife, mother and media character, has found her own light. A light that, although titrating, illuminates its path and that of those who look at it with admiration. “I’m at my best,” he says. And, for the first time, it seems that it is true.
