Honest. Open in channel. With the truth. Juan José Ballesta (35) is lawful. This has been demonstrated in the interview he has granted to Lo de Évole. The winner of the Goya for best new actor for El Bola (2000) has given a life lesson to the entire collection of egos of his profession. At the end of February he reappeared in Pasapalabra after 132 days without knowing anything about him, many media out of pot and it was even said that it was due to depression, so the actor has explained what happened without mincing words: "They gave me for disappeared and I have always known where I have been. All I did was quit social media because I was tired. I was very addicted and I was hooked." Having to continually show his private life exhausted him.

The depression actually happened when her partner since she was a child, Verónica Rebollo, and father of her only child, Jorgito, left her because for her love had ended. "I had a very bad time, I could not conceive of life without her, I spent a year and a half long like with depression, I got very bad, I had dependence and I should have gone to the psychologist. The feeling of having a squeeze in your chest all day and wanting to cry..." They broke up after fifteen years of relationship and now they get along very well. Despite that breakup, he is sincere in remembering his father-in-law, José, who has since died: "He was like a father to me. I started crying. Today I can't talk about him. He always showed his face for me, I've felt very loved."

However, the most important moment of his life that stunned everyone was when he decided to leave the cinema after winning the Silver Shell at the San Sebastian Film Festival for 7 virgins (2005). He was 18 years old and said enough: "I was very overwhelmed. I thought I was never going to be an actor again. I could not go outside, I could not make my life, I took pictures continuously – he clarifies that it was always due to people – I was very stressed, I could not go out with my friends or my family, I was not happy I did not feel with a full life and I said to myself: 'This is how far we have come'.

A friend called me to do some botched "and I started working as a stonemason for 700 euros a month, I was quiet doing something different, working twelve hours a day piecework (...) and if my friend Angel calls me who sets up ovens, then I'm going to set up ovens. And if I have to go paint a floor I go with my father. I'm very active, so I'm not doing anything at home I'm going to do messes."

He puts the dots on the i's to those colleagues who go with pretensions of greatness: "I get along well with the whole industry, but with those stretched actors who go to the shoot and everything bothers them, they call their representative because they want to change a session when we are all pulling the cart ... Value what you have, we have a privileged life. What they would have to do is bend the spine."

And it is said by someone who has won 40,000 or 50,000 euros for a film and who has also gone through difficult times because when you win "you give a lot of money to lower the letter of the floor, you buy a car ..." And he adds: "If I have, you have." He has rejected abysmal amounts to go to Big Brother and Survivors, but he has continued in his line of not starring in scandals. "I've always wanted to be a good role model for my son Jorgito," who is now 15 years old.

Life takes so many turns that he does not know what to answer Jordi Évole when he asks him how he looks ten years from now: "In the countryside with my horses, my animals and a girl. I want to be a father again. Vero and I lost a child at three months, they did a curettage. A little piece of my heart is gone."

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