“It was very liberating to hit the bottom”
Zeta Makripoulia “launched” the new cycle of the show “Enopios Enopio” with Nikos Hatzinikolaouof the ANT1 television station and gave an interview in full.
“I’ve heard a lot. Everyone should think how they can metabolize it. Because the years have passed, I remember experiencing intense criticism, often unfair,” said the actress and presenter and continued:
“I understand the other’s work, I understand that you want to write something. But it is not possible for only one side to understand. You journalists have something magical. You do your work individually but if someone talks about the industry you become a force. I’ve been through hard times, days of the lunchtime shows. I’ve lived with surveillance, I’ve been followed by cars, people, flashlights. I have done what the press told me to shut myself in my house. Especially my personal life to live within the four walls but it is a choice. I want to think they are long forgotten».
He then referred to the pressure he felt from the showbiz environment. “The pressure is so great that you have no room. I thought I was managing it, that I wasn’t being touched and in a sense I wasn’t being touched. The very very coarse things that have been said about me cannot touch me beyond the feeling of injustice because it was not true. If I thought it was something true, I might have been more involved. I had understood that if you give the slightest, it is enough to flare up more. I had chosen silence and that is a cost but I was waiting for it to end,” he said.
Bad behaviors
Then her conversation with Nikos Hatzinikolaou went on other paths and she also talked about the bad attitudes she received, among other things.
“It’s puzzling why this happened. There has been a period of my life when I was out, going out. Never have we done in our life, we want to. What you say I haven’t changed men like shirts ever I might want a little to be so open, to play. But no, I followed another line because that’s how my family was. I think it was caused by the fact that the relationships were with well-known persons and from there I don’t know what else. It doesn’t matter what I feel but how determined you are to intervene and deal with me“, he characteristically said at the point of the show.
“I’ve been objectified, I’ve seen it! This place is tough, let alone for a 15-16 year old. They did harm to my psychology and I was slow to realize it. In my relationships not so much because I had a way of protecting them and going into my house and leaving them behind. In my psychology too much. I have received bad attitudes“, he emphasized below.
“I don’t know how to play it star”
“I don’t act like a star in my personal life, I don’t know how to act like a star. Even in times of need I am unable to do so. I am a lucky person, I cared more about my home, my people, my family than my work. I always put weight on my personal life. What happens in this job and goes well is very specific. If you make a success you have no time to breathe. I had a 5 year period in my life where I worked 20 hours straight. Despite my tiredness, my release was my friends. I might have had 5 hours of sleep, at 3 I went to my friends to unwind. Then it’s up to us whether we go at that pace or put the brakes on. This is what I decided, to put a brake on!”, she then mentioned and expanded on talking about her mental health.
“Above all else it’s my mental health”
“Above all else is my mental health. It is above all because it rang a bell. A strong pre-Covid-19 bell rang and we were in the midst of interviews. I panicked. My second panic attack. The first one was on the stage and suddenly I felt and heard a crack and suddenly I started shaking on the stage. The first time I had to ask for help was this“, he revealed.
“The second was then about what they will ask me, what I will say, not to comment on what I will say. To request the interviews, to negotiate the titles. I’m having a beautiful crisis and the wall I built was a lie. I’m starting to feel vulnerable in all directions and I don’t know what to do. At some point I remember saying: “Finally, finally! It’s been a long time, I’ve given too many interviews, I’ve said many things, from meaningless to nothing, there’s no other reason anymore. Thank God there is a new generation and I have done everything I had to do”. Since then I have been much calmer. Another strong shock I received is when I realized that reality, as I have it in my mind, is not that. For everything around our life. Also, then came the image crisis.”
“Suddenly, all this started not being enough for me, to want something else. I could not imagine that the years I have left, I will be with the same condition. Because I know that I am a person who dreads change, now I understand it, I try to learn that things never stay the same forever and they change. At the time I thought I was happy, carefree, creative and successful, now I look at it and see that it wasn’t just that. I was caught by a cancellation and a cancellation of everything”, he added to conclude:
“The next priority is what I want. Then there is the image and how much we sacrifice in order not to spoil our image. My perspective has changed on everything!”
“The bottom I hit was very liberating, I left for 15 days alone in a village”
“During the corona virus period, I hit rock bottom. I forbid myself to cry. During that time I left for 15-16 days and went alone to a village. I can do it on my own. I thought I was very strong and that I could do it. In all these thoughts that I am describing to you, I realized that I have a huge insecurity, that I am a very scared personZeta Makripoulia said initially.
Zeta Makripoulia then said: “For me, the bottom I caught was very liberating. You may not realize it at the time, but you have no choice but to go up. If you hit a bottom, the next option is to start slowly climbing up, and this has done me a lot of good. I was alone, my personal life was falling apart, I was “hit” from everywhere”.
Zeta Makripoulia also reported: “I also stayed the 16 days I had to without anyone being able to bring me a glass of water, so there I said it’s my chance to cry, to think, to complain. And from there I slowly started to get stronger and make some decisions, decisions on how to protect myself.”
