Leire Martínez is the new guest of ‘I stay with me’, the mental health format with psychologist Andrea Vicente, which can be seen online on Mitele de Mtmad (Mediaset), and is in its third season. The first part of his interview lasts 30 minutes and is online starting today, Wednesday, October 30.
It focuses entirely on her complex relationship with her parents, although the teasers shown at the beginning of the program and at the end already show that Leire Martínez will leave juicy statements about her traumatic departure from La Oreja de Van Gogh. Curiously, he does not charge against Amaia, leaving as the headline, among others: “I am not anyone’s rival. I am not going to be part of others’ war” or “Amaia has nothing to do with what has happened in this group. “Let them leave her alone.”
He adds: “When I saw that journalists were starting to ask me about certain topics, I said: “Whoops!” (…) We have never been friends, we are colleagues. I admire her deeply. This interest in putting the focus on us… I am not anyone’s rival. “I’m sorry, but I’m not going to be part of someone else’s war.”
Instead, and always according to what emerges from these teasers, Leire Martínez will be harsh with her former bandmates: «If someone believes that in 17 years of living together everything has been wonderful… Common sense tells you that if not “I signed that statement because I don’t agree with it,” he says, referring to the brief and icy statement with which the La Oreja de Van Gogh boys explained the departure of the band’s last singer.
These first 30 minutes that are online are instead about Leire’s difficult relationship with her parents, who separated when she was only 5 years old. They did not explain anything to her, and they opted for shared custody on alternate days that the artist describes as “schizophrenic.” After 4 years living more with her mother, and 4 with her father, at 13 they met her and asked her to choose who she wanted to stay with. The bad relationship between her parents continues to this day, and Leire feels that she has taken care of both of them, without anyone taking care of her.
Much of the interview, exciting and enriching despite the tear-jerking music that the format allows, deals with Leire’s difficulty in setting limits with her parents, and subsequently with her partners: “I have allowed myself to not be treated well.” As a teenager, he became depressed, lost weight, and after asking for help from social services, he found refuge helping a family with triplets who also needed help and who always expressed their love to him, as his own family had not done. “They haven’t known how to love me,” he says in an interview that will finally allow the public to know who Leire Martínez is. The second chapter of the interview with Leire is expected in the coming days.
