After a very dark stage, Almudena Cid has finally come out on top. Almost a year and a half has passed since the moment the former gymnast and Christian Gálvez announced their separation after 15 years of relationship. Their breakup surprised many, since it was one of the most established couples. For months, their divorce made headlines almost daily. Now, after some time in the background, their names have once again been placed under the media spotlight due to the athlete's latest statements. She has been on the radio program Hoy por hoy, presented by Àngels Barceló.
If something has kept Almudena firm after her break with the presenter, it has been the support of her loved ones and her focus on her professional projects. First, as a theater actress, and later with her facet as a writer. In fact, the 42-year-old girl attended the aforementioned program to present her latest book, Walking without toes. In the program, the gymnast has opened up in channel and has narrated the very hard moments that she went through after her breakup, at which time she even considered taking her own life.
"I came to think that giving a swerve would end the pain. I know that what I'm telling you is something very intimate, but I don't mind saying it on the radio because I want to say that when you're like this you need to ask for help," began the former gymnast, who participated in four Olympic Games: Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.
Luckily, the young woman asked for help and recounted her experience in the book Walking Without Toes. Almudena revealed to Àngels that this whole process of change has helped her to value her own feelings and emotions more. "The most visceral feelings were always behind closed doors and anger was not a feeling that prevailed during the breakup, there was only immense sadness," the actress also revealed.
"Everything that helped me to overcome the worst moments of my sports career is what has saved me from this situation," he revealed on the program. In addition, Cid acknowledges that part of the problems that she had with her marriage with the presenter was due to the attitudes that she inherited from her time as an elite athlete. "I have been a person who has always put the needs of others before their own, with the state of anxiety that this generated in me. I had an impulse not to disappoint, the need to show that I was very good at sports, with friends , with the couples", he explained.
The young woman, who currently maintains a discreet relationship with player agent Gerardo Berodia, has also spoken about the problems she experienced due to her public projection after the breakup. "Many media exhibited this situation as mere entertainment and one ends up accepting it because they have also seen it in other famous people, without realizing that we are talking about people," she said on the radio program.
After this hard stage on a personal level, Almudena is now calm and stable. With her new book, she wants to help other people who have gone through a dark time to be happier. And it is that, if something has always characterized Cid, it has been his indelible smile and his nice character. Now the former athlete begins a new stage, leaving behind everything that she one day built with Gálvez.
