Marta Riesco has always been very open about her mental health. The reporter has never hidden that she receives professional help, a fact that she made public because of how her relationship with Antonio David Flores was inextricably intertwined with her work as a journalist at Mediaset.
Those were difficult days, with Marta Riesco working as a reporter for Unicorn Content -with whom she is currently involved in a legal process-, and with her personal life as an object of interest for the heart press. A few moments that the reporter did not know how to carry, as she has recounted in an article she writes for the Iberoshow portal, in which the journalist admits that she has "undressed, but well", and with which she assures that many people will understand why finally how have been the things that have happened to him in the last months.
The reporter confesses that a few years ago, she already had to deal with serious mental health problems. Not being able to manage the mourning for the loss of his grandmother, losing his job and a complicated family situation led him to suffer from severe depression. She got out of the rut, but six years later, the nightmare repeated itself.
Marta Riesco tells how, after leaving the Ya son las 8 program in what was the most complicated intervention of her life, she had to call her mother from the toilets of the Mediaset studios, seized with a panic attack: "I didn't I'm fine, mom. I can not anymore. I am overwhelmed by this whole situation”, she told him.
A moment that occurred after the worst day of his career, since just a few hours before, they had had a serious televised conflict with Sálvame while he was covering the Urdangarin case in Vitoria; which had led her to be "punished" by Unicorn and The Ana Rosa Program.
"In full direct, they began to rebuke me until I jumped in and gave them the bait they wanted," explains the reporter, who acknowledges that "she had lost her temper and her nerves."
To make matters worse, his relationship with Antonio David Flores was in its last stages; The man from Malaga had returned with Olga Moreno to the family home and did not speak to his alleged girlfriend. "That killed me daily."
After the altercation, those responsible for the production company "punished" Marta Riesco by removing her from the screen in El programa de Ana Rosa. However, her surprise came two hours later, when the same producer, but from the Ya son las 8 program, requested her as a collaborator and live, "rewarding" her for what had happened. "I did not understand anything. She just let me be carried away by one and the other. I didn't feel or suffer."
The reporter was honest about that difficult moment: "During the entire program I had a blank look," she recalls, "I was shaking and felt like my mind was going away, I wasn't thinking clearly and it was hard for me to speak."
A very difficult moment, which luckily he managed to overcome. After her television appearance, she quickly went to the bathroom, where she suffered a severe panic attack that caused her to call her mother to take her to the hospital: "I wanted to die," says Riesco, "My body was shaking, I was sweating and I just I wanted to collapse."
Moments later, already in the psychiatric emergency room, he received his diagnosis again: an anxious-depressive picture, which he has been treating ever since. Riesco is still going strong, and advises everyone listening to her to see a mental health specialist. "Don't let people ridicule you for going to mental health facilities. Everyone should do it, at a better or worse time."
