Almudena Cid is right now a kind of phoenix that rises from its ashes. The former gymnast has started 2023 strong and in a totally different way from how she ended the previous year, with her divorce from Christian Gálvez after more than a decade together as the icing on the cake at the end of the year.
A starting signal for a true emotional hell - even more so when seeing that her ex-husband rebuilt his life with the journalist Patricia Pardo - from which the gymnast has managed to get out, with a lot of time and patience. This is how she has embodied it in Walking without toes (ed. Vergara), which she launches on April 3 and in which she describes those complicated moments lived with her ex as "tsunami" and "bomb" between the pages her.
A book in which Almudena shares, with great honesty and empathy, the path that she herself has traveled in the last year, in which it seems that "the end of love can sometimes be the best news". For her, it has been. This 2023 has been restorative for the athlete, who lives happily with her new partner, the sports agent Gerardo Berodia, is more than strong enough to talk about the past and, why not, to throw the odd dart at her ex-husband, who has become an involuntary protagonist of Almudena's new project.
"I think I've gotten over it but it's been a very difficult year personally, the worst of my life," he stated. According to the former gymnast, she "idealized" the relationship with the 25-word presenter, whom she accuses of having "confused" her, as she would also have done with her environment: "I still idealized what I thought that relationship was but I am clear that I it confused me and everyone around me. It was like a bomb. My life had been blown up. I was devastated."
What's more, he had such bad times that it affected him a lot on a physical level: "I think I've gotten over it but it has been a very difficult year personally, the worst of my life. Writing has served me as therapy, to order myself, place things in their place and many more things. These are experiences that usually happen, they are common, but you also have to know how to overcome it, "commented the former athlete in her last interview on Cadena SER. "I lost many kilos, I don't want to see myself like this again. You have to eat, sleep and breathe," she said, before going on to talk about the end of her relationship with Gálvez.
The earthquake has passed and, despite its traces, everything is returning to normal. "Now everything is calmer but the truth is that it has been quite difficult."
For Almudena, everything has been a learning process. "Luckily, I can now talk about it, noticing that I am fine. My family watches me and sees me in good condition. The line of depression is so complex that you have to be careful because you can pass it. Terrible options passed through my mind. head".
