This Tuesday, October 10, the Asturian consort presided over the central event of ‘World Mental Health Day 2023’, organized by the Spanish Mental Health Confederation, in collaboration with the ONCE Foundation and the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030. The event It took place at the Ilunion Pío XII Hotel in Madrid. The Queen Letiziaas usual, has not only won applause for his successful stylistic choice, but especially for his powerful speech.
Letizia opened the event with a speech in which she quoted verses from the rapper El Chojin, who on the podcast Angel Martin He opened up about his mental health problems.
“Tell me, please, what this sounds like to you,” he said. “I do what I can. I get to what I get to and it’s not healthy that I demand so much of myself. The anger and bad faces hurt when I fail at something, but it hurts more when they don’t appreciate that you’ve tried. And I’m trying. Sorry if I can’t do it, but why did they think that I would do it well all the time?” Felipe VI’s wife recited, paraphrasing the well-known rapper’s phrases.
Next, the mother of Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía explained why: “It would not occur to me to try to be a rapper out of respect for the artists of this musical genre, but it does occur to me that, perhaps, some media is afternoon or tomorrow title: ‘The Queen raps for mental health’, raps in quotes, I think it would be a good way to direct attention again to a matter as serious and important as this. What I have read are words, verses from rapper, writer and composer El Chojin”.
Letizia has stressed that the rapper “has helped many young people” by making their mental health problems visible. At the same time, she has also praised the work of Ángel Martín: “he has done a lot when it comes to putting this issue of mental health on the table.” The former presenter of I know what you did He has talked about his experiences both in his book (In case the voices return), as in his podcast and on social networks.
We must remember that this is one of the social causes for which Letizia is most involved.