Nazarena Vélez attended as a guest “Free Beings” cycle broadcast by Crónica HD and conducted by Gaston Pauls. In a hand-to-hand dialogue with the actor, the theatrical producer gave details about her addiction to amphetamines. He also referred to his teenage eating disorders, the pressures he received in the middle of the show when he achieved fame at the country level and the severe blows of life such as the tragic death of his sister Jasmine and the suicide of Fabián Rodríguez. “When I was 14, I started taking diuretics and laxatives, because I was always chubby as a little girl. I heard them say about me ‘What a nice pity it’s chubby’ then for me the chubby being was a bad word,” the actress revealed on the 13th Free Beings show and detailed, “I took until I was 35, so 11 years ago I stopped consuming.”
“I knew he was killing me, I started with 2 pills and I ended up with 30 a day, but I liked the result,” Nazarena confessed about his perfect circle: he took the pills, he lost weight, he got a job and he was doing well financially to raise his children. “It gave me the result I needed, when the skinnier I was, that’s when I had the most work,” she said. “I took notion when I was about to die. when I overdosed on pills. I remember eating a hamburger and I said’ this is what it’s going to match? With a lot more pills.’ I went to bed and my heart was exploding. It was November 16, 2008, I was in bed immobilized, I couldn’t move and I felt like I had bugs in my body. I said well, ‘I’m dying,'” Velez recalled, and continued with his account: “I in my head said I have to call my mom but the body wasn’t reacting to me. That’s when I decided to tell the whole truth. I had never been able to bleach it with anyone, but it was at that moment that I needed to tell it. I was embarrassed because I knew what I was doing was wrong.” He then questioned the role of the media in the midst of his recovery and fat society: “I was struggling to leave the pills and everyone was saying how fat I was. On a public level it was the worst thing that ever happened to me. There is no dimension of the damage done from the outside to one. What I was getting from the outside was ‘you’re shitting it, I’m consuming it again because your new body wouldn’t be widely accepted.'” “I don’t take pills today because I felt death very closely but not only mine, but a year my sister (Jasmine) dies at 21 in an accident and when I see the suffering of my old men and my little niece a year and a half without Mom I say ‘you’re doing everything wrong.'” Then Nazarena Velez confessed that another hard moment in her life was after Fabian’s death that she began drinking alcohol: “I was left alone and lost everything, every day I had bouts of crying; that’s when I started drinking alcohol. I’d put Titi (his youngest son) to bed at 8pm and open the first bottle of wine and I could have four or five litres alone.” Until one day he said “I don’t drink any more wine” and he did. “All the time I have temptations and all the time I have to be remembering that I don’t want to die. I have a personality that violates me several times,” he said at the same time that he confessed that during 2020 in full quarantine for the coronavirus pandemic “I was taking 6 mg of rivotril.” Finally Nazarena recounted that today he is in a “moment of acceptance” and thanked his family who was always there: “You have to have a lot of love to be by the side of an addict, my family has everything,” he concluded.
