The sad days of Ana Obregón: “I’m going to a place where it’s not Christmas, I can’t stand it”

At the doors of which he confesses will be the saddest Christmas of his life (without his parents or his son), Ana Obregon has reappeared this Monday at the presentation of the new product of a cosmetic firm of which she is an ambassador and whose cache she donates, entirely, to the Foundation that bears the name of her son.

Trying to show off a smile despite how hard these dates are for her, the presenter has taken stock of the last 365 days and, while preparing to give the Chimes with Los Morancos on TVE, reveals how she will spend her first Christmas Eve without her father .

Q: Good morning, Ana.

R: Good morning everyone and thanks for coming. I have spent four years without much strength to face this by myself, but I have a special affection for this brand because it was a contact thanks to my son, and everything I earn as an image, I donate to my son’s foundation , to the Aless Lequio Foundation, that we are investigating especially childhood cancer and that is what excites me the most, right? To think that I can work to help others and in fact already this Friday we are going to finance a very important trial, it is Ewing’s Sarcoma, which is what my son had.

P: You say you don’t take care of yourself at all, but you look spectacular.

R: The truth is that I have never cared less about what I look like on the outside because all this is a lie and what is important is what comes from the heart and projects.

Q: I imagine that Christmas is difficult with the absences.

R: Yes, the truth is that this Christmas, like for two years, I don’t celebrate… In fact, I don’t even decorate or anything because for what? If I’m alone I go by myself to a place on the 23rd or 24th in the morning and so I don’t think it’s Christmas Eve. I’ll take my train or my plane, I haven’t decided yet so you don’t come, and I’ll be there without thinking that it’s Christmas Eve. I can’t think about it, this Christmas I’m missing my parents and my son and I can’t.

Q: But you close a professionally good year.

R: Of course, the professional is important. I will be there on the 31st, I am aware that it will be hard for me. Accompanied by Los Morancos, there are going to be Campanadas like the movie by Smiles and tears. People are going to laugh a lot, but there will always be what I always teach, which is my heart and emotion, valuing what is important in life, which is love.

Q: Will the absence of Anne Igartiburu be noticed?

R: I adore her. I will miss her terribly but she has already created history in the Chimes for 14 years. She is a great person and that is what is important.

Q: Last year you couldn’t give them at the last minute due to the covid. Will you wear last year’s dress or will you have a new dress?

R: Last year I couldn’t because of the covid and it was tremendous because we had the dress, we had shot the promo… This year, when I return from that place I’m going to, I’m going to go into my house with a mask even if I’m alone and not I am going to move from home until the 31st when they take me to Puerta del Sol. I think this year there are going to be some historic Chimes, they are going to reflect a little on what we human beings live because life is bittersweet, it is chiaroscuro and that is what is going to live.

Q: We are also waiting for the book you are writing.

R: I’m locked in my house writing. I’ve been writing for four months, it’s a tribute to my son. The book will be called The boy with the shrews Because to me, my mom, when I was little and I kept thinking, would say “you’re thinking about the shrews”, so I also said it to my son because he was absent. He started writing it when he started chemo treatment and wanted to finish it but didn’t have time. It’s being hard, but that book that he wanted to publish and donate to research will be like the heart of my book. I will write a before and after and everything will go to my son’s foundation.

Q: Is it serving you as therapy?

R: I write with tears and it’s like a roller coaster of feelings. It’s a very cruel love story of a mother and a son, that’s what it is.

Q: You recently met Elena Huelva.

R: Helena is wonderful. We talk every day, we cry together, I give her hope because she has it and she is a warrior. They are life lessons that she gives us, both my son and her or like many who are anonymous, give us a life lesson about what is important. She is an inspiration. She helps me a lot to help others. I used to take care of my father, my mother, my son and now since I don’t have someone to take care of, she helps me. Helping others helps me.

Q: María Escario is also going through a delicate moment, I don’t know if you’ve spoken to her…

R: I haven’t talked to her but from here I send her a kiss. Unfortunately this is what happens in Spain, there are 300 daily deaths from cancer.

Q: Are you also related to Sara Carbonero? She recently had surgery again…

R: Sara is another warrior no matter how much they don’t like being called that. It’s a battle. I have lived it hand in hand with my son, it is a war. There are no winners or losers, they are all heroes.

Q: When you go to the hospital and you are with the children, doesn’t it break your heart?

R: It’s that my soul is already broken and the only thing that perhaps helps me to return to its place is to be with the mothers, to be with them and give them hope.