“Please, I would like to clarify that I have not had Addison's disease as has been published. That is very serious, because it is kidney failure. In my case it was fatigue caused by stress, from which I have practically recovered,” Josie tells this newspaper before the interview. After several months away from television, the fashion journalist has returned to the program Zapeando, where he collaborates, and is also immersed in the preparations for Cristina Pedroche's dress for the Campanadas. “I have not been able to disconnect from TV for 10 intense years, but now it has been a forced retirement in which I have had to rest, sleep, eat well, as if I were a baby, and I have also followed non-aggressive treatments. ” .
Josie explains that it all started on March 1 when the recording of the tenth season of Tu cara me sounds finished: “I neither sing, nor dance, nor perform, so it was especially hard,” she says. I could arrive on set every week without knowing the words, but I wanted to do it well. I wanted to give it my all and I stopped taking care of myself, I ate less, I didn't have time for physical exercise...I slept little, because I woke up thinking about the performance and so on for seven months." But she clarifies: “I am very happy with how everything turned out in the program.”
The meeting with Josie was at the Gran Canaria Swim Week by Moda Cálida. “I have been going to this catwalk for many years, which I find to be one of the most fun and joyful because bathing is a fashion closely associated with enjoyment, and here I have discovered very interesting Canarian designers.”
He believes that in recent years Pedroche's dresses “have been able to open a visual gap.” He says that he cannot choose one of all the ones he has worn because “there are many experiences behind each one.” And many brands have offered astronomical figures “but it is not an economic issue, it is something visceral.”
But dressed aside, Josie's big project at the moment is the restoration of a 19th century mansion, which she has inherited in Manzanares (La Mancha): “Since 2020 I have been dedicated to the restoration of her paintings, her mosaics. “It is a long and laborious process, but I hope that next year Villa Josie will be a place where I can hold fashion or art events.” She would like to premiere it by presenting the book she is writing.
He also hopes to settle there: “I live in Madrid, but Barcelona has always understood me and welcomed me from the beginning. But if there is a city that I adore, it is Vic. Its cathedral seems to me to be one of the most beautiful interior spaces I have ever seen, with Sert's paintings and in the afternoon when the sun hits it and it looks like a gold ingot," explains the journalist excited when remembering that image.
