Following the confession of Terelu Campos, who spoke in Survivors of his father and suicide, some of the journalist’s companions have remembered that Chelo García-Cortés also lived a similar situationA, being smaller than María Teresa Campos’s daughter. Although his marriage to José Manuel Parada is known as Chelo, his ‘night of love’ with Barbara Rey and Marta, his current woman, has granted interviews; There are passages from your life that are little known. The Catalan journalist is not usual to speak of this, although she did assembled to tell it in without labels, her memoir published in 2023.
Converted into LGTBIQ+icon, he has always defended before the cameras that is bisexual, something that has cost him criticism, but also the love of millions of people, who see it as an example to follow. But before discovering his sexuality, a tragic episode marked his life forever. In her book, the collaborator assured that her childhood had not been entirely normal, something that made her identity for time. «When I was only eleven, I lost my mother. That made me a rebel and independent woman being still a girl, and I had to face things that nobody should face at that age. My childhood was difficult, but I also lived an exciting and thrilling youth », thus promoting his book.
The truth is that at that young age he discovers that his mother has committed suicidea moment that causes a great vacuum in your life. In spite of everything, in her memoirs she wanted to pay her homage and show everyone that she was a beautiful woman, so she included several of her photos, although it was something hard for her.
Chelo García-Cortes on the set of ‘Save Me’ (Mediaset).«I couldn’t look at the photo album because it hurt me. I have been able to open it after giving him many turns for my book, because I wanted to teach photos and show off as a mother, since I have not had it»He explained to the Telecinco website that for years he could never see the photos of his childhood next to her.
Nor did he miss the recognition of his father, who had to overcome the loss of his partner and take care of an almost teenage daughter, who also had many problems. «He did the role of father and mother and took me to the psychiatrist, but I ran and I have always been reluctant to have relations with specialized doctors, Although I have overcome it, ”he remembers the first moment to try to treat that loss.
Chelo García-Cortés in ‘Save Me’ (Mediaset).The disease suffered by Chelo García-Cortés’s mother was a trauma, but in case it was not enough, his father also went through jail. From that stage, he remembers that his father told him the fear he had there for being a closed space, reason why since then Chelo suffers from claustrophobia.
This is how Chelo García-Cortés discovered that his mother had died
His passage through Survivors In 2019 he made him think a lot about his childhood, counting many things on his return to Save me. In addition to confessing that His mother suffered bipolarity, he also explained the hard moment in which his death communicatedsymptom that this was another very different era.
Chelo García-Cortés after his departure from ‘Survivors’ (Mediaset).«The director of the school told me. I was in the Teresians of Madrid. It was a Swiss nun school in Canillejas (a neighborhood in Madrid). We were playing in the patio. The director calls me to her office and instead of hugging me she told me: Your mother has committed a sin and has done this. Hold it»Luckily his uncle was next to her to accompany her at that time.
