Adabel Guerrero spoke with Gastón Pauls: “Living with an alcoholic person is not having a bra, being in the air all the time”

Rescuing from the past the fragments that make her the woman and mother she is today, Adabel Guerrero spoke with Gastón Pauls putting into words situations she experienced in the face of her mother’s addiction to alcohol and drugs, on the part of her brother.” We have very little margin to be free, we are marked by our childhood, our parents, the environment, the education we had, the experiences, there is very little margin to choose. I fought all my life for that little margin,” he began reflecting on the concept that Seres Libres carries in its title, the first television program that addresses the problem of addictions in the country, recently recognized by the Buenos Aires Legislature and that has been broadcasting its second season on Fridays from 22 hours on Crónica TV. ” My mom suffered from depression all her life, was an alcoholic, and died an alcoholic: she had cirrhosis. My brother is addicted and I still don’t know where he is. I got tired of following him from juvenile institutes (because he left home at 14), in prison, in the hospital because they grind him with sticks since he got into all the fights there were and to have. I went to see him until Open Door. It never came out and when I felt that it was not my brother, the one who defended me who accompanied me, I cut off relationship, “said the actress and dancer.

While reflecting that “we all stop being who we are because we are changing,” she acknowledges that she understood that her brother stopped being the person who played with her when he only came to her to ask for money.

Gastón Pauls hand in hand with Adabel Guerrero | Photo: Courtesy of the press

“One day I met a person who just wanted to get money and benefits. I used my blood tie to use myself. The relationship ended when he asked me for money and told me he needed I don’t know how many millions of dollars. As I said no, he went to the TV to tell things about my life because they offered him at that time like 5 thousand pesos per note, “he said. About his mother, he said he was going to try “not to go back too much because I cry.” “I was afraid of being a mom because not having a good example I was afraid I wouldn’t be good, there are wounds that never heal and you learn to live with that,” she said.

“Living with an alcoholic person is a horror movie, it is to feel that there is no floor, support, that you are in the air all the time. My mom always ended up in an alcoholic coma. But I, when I was five years old and being in the care of some uncles, prayed to the Virgin every night asking her to come and look for me. Because whatever it is, it was my mom,” she shared through tears. When my mother mixed pills with alcohol she began to see the devil and called witches and sorcerers who said they wanted to harm me these beings. Imagine my childhood, I didn’t sleep all night. It is today that I have a hard time sleeping with the light off,” he added.

Adabel found her mother lifeless at age 17; I was coming from a rehearsal. “My brother came to live at home and it was a disaster and he threatened that he was going to kill me and I went to make the complaint. There they offered me to do therapy and that saved my life, because I began to have a containment that I did not have before,” he said. If you are going through or know someone in a situation of addiction, you can contact the toll-free line 141, or virtually. Anonymous and nationwide assistance 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

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