Fifteen years after becoming their mutual nightmare in OT 2008, Esther Aranda and Risto Mejide they met again in traveling with chester. “Thank you for accessing, you have been my request,” confessed the presenter. Before starting the interview, he also wanted to make three points clear:
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“You are the first person to sit here, having been judged by me. Like all the guests You have not charged a single euro to sit here. Now you are a businesswoman and you have a life madeso this is not a promotion for you, “he stressed and she confirmed:” I came because I really wanted to see you.
And it is that, in that edition of Triumph operationAranda became the target of the harshest criticism that Risto would make in his career: from “you are the most defective product”, Even “that sound that I have heard cannot come out of a mouth”, were some of the comments that have haunted her:
“I was 20 years old, I was a girl. She new to everything. I had a bad time at that time. The castings went very well for me but at the Academy I got very nervous. At gala 0 you put a lot of cane in me and as a result of there she got into a brown mess. You crushed me to the fullest and I have always been haunted by the question of ‘why is this guy such an asshole with me?‘ Why with me, man?
And finally, Risto answered it: “I hated that format with all my might. I told the producers that way. I’m going to say what I think of everything and it’s not good. When the audience already increased and it reported income to us, there was a business. But my motivation was to go for the program. My enemies were not you. The proof is that I confronted the two chief producers, I don’t talk to them, but also with the presenter. I got in to destroy it, ”he revealed.
But that was something that Aranda was unable to see being so young: “I was going to shit. If it happens to me now it would be different, I didn’t see the show. I would go on stage and my stomach ached from nerves. When I got off the stage people booed me. Today no one would allow it, not even the public. He would have labeled you my stuff. That was a circus, that these assessments were allowed to a 20-year-old child. I couldn’t handle the pressure and I couldn’t leave because of the penalty, but I would have gone, ”he lamented.
Something for which the publicist wanted to apologize: “I’m not proud of my ratings, I think I skidded. I don’t regret it either because it’s what made me here today. But an examination would have to be made of why a figure like mine hit it so hard, ”he reflected.
To add that, while his destructive criticism of Aranda increased the audience, so did his favoritism for Virginia. A weakness that he reasoned for the first time: “I took the cause of Virginia to go against the producer too, I told her not to trust anyone. The movement that you all did to him was incredible… what was done with that girl, the Academy, the moment of finery”.
And he confessed something unprecedented: “In fact, I am going to say something that I had never told. There was another girl who was the producer’s favorite, he told me that I was the one who had to win and it was the beginning of the end of my relationship with him. I had to apply my judgment, not what he told me. He came to condition me and I was not going to vote for whoever he told me. It was when I began to defend Virginia from the harassment of the Academy and the rest of the production. And that was the one she won, over Pablo López, but she made her win the public, not me ”.
Thus, the singer from Malaga and the publicist said goodbye hugging and looking into each other’s eyes, he apologized once again: “This Risto that you see is not the same as 15 years ago. I’m really sorry, really, I wish you didn’t have to go through that.”. To which she replied: “We were collateral damage and I do not hold a grudge against you, I am very fond of you and I do not live in hatred, neither with you nor with anyone.”