The journalist also referred to #MeToo and the person she wanted to expose
The famous journalist, Elli Stai, in an interview she talked about her journey in the news, her life with her two grandchildren, whether she will remarry, while revealing that the “monster” of depression “knocked” on her own door. “I enjoy running and the love of the people I love. The joy you get from your own people is deeper and more substantial and accompanies you until you die“, said Elli Stai.
She then spoke about her life: “I never overstepped my limits, if I have had anything good in my life to date it has been this balance and living well and out of the limelight.
I have never been vain, but in other things I have stepped on it, such as the emotional insecurity that I have always had and that no one can even understand. That is, looking for emotional security from others, I may have made many wrong choices. It also has to do with how one grew up, I lost my dad when I was 8, on first reading… of course, it leaves you with the need to find what you didn’t have, a solid male role model».
In another part of her interview with Niki Lymberakis, on MEGA, the journalist revealed that she passed depression: “I went through depression. It is a very difficult experience, because whoever encounters this for the first time, does not know it at all. He really needs a lot of help from the environment to be able to find a way to deal with it, to recover. It happened to me at 40. I was in a phase of great professional development, at the peak of my professional career. It bothered me enough. It was seen and I said so at my workplace then. It is very difficult to deal with it at its first impact… The fear that it is a mental illness, makes it a monster».
The journalist also mentioned on #MeToo and the face he wanted to reveal. “I don’t want to make assumptions because I will upset us, because we will talk about our space. When it broke out #MeToo belatedly in Greece, some colleagues remembered that I had given an interview to Antonis Schroiter, who had asked me about these issues and had described, without mentioning the name, what had happened to me in my youth in a major media outlet and what attitude I had taken. No one had dealt with what and how, I saw it a bit gossipy on the internet. Now that the topic has come back and the “Aeolos’ case” has been opened, albeit belatedly, I had another conversation with an excellent colleague, who called me and said I know what you are referring to. She began to tell me her own experience and other names of women we knew, who had suffered the same things in the same place.” said Elli Stai and added: “I tell her do you want these 15-20 women to write something together and I’ll be the first to say the name? There was no follow-up and no response. No woman. By allusion because there are things, which are brighter than the sun who is, what is and who. I said to myself you won’t say the name because there can’t be a gathering of women in the space».
And as for the rumors that she is getting married again, Elli Stai answered: “This I think was a reproduction from an article written 6-7 years ago. I’ve been married several times, that’s enough“, he said with a smile.
Finally, she made a special mention of her grandchildren: “My eldest grandson is Dimitris, who is 2.5 years old and the youngest is Philippos, who is 10 months old. Dimitris calls me grandma Elli, because he also has another grandma and I wanted him to call me grandma, because what some people want only the first name, I’m not, I’m a mom and a grandma. I am very busy with my grandchildren, two or three times a week now that Dimitris has grown up I take him home, we do the whole day’s schedule, he talks and gets along normally and is calmer with me and than he is at home with them his parents. I am also calmer and this is because with our own children as parents we are more irritable. I had regrets about things I didn’t do as a mother because I was running errands. Everyone has regrets and there is no serious parent who doesn’t have regrets».
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