OR Eliana Chrysikopoulou talks to “Happy Day” and Olga Lafazani about the loss of her parents, but also her decision to start psychotherapy, about her collaboration with Natalia Germanou but also her Eleni Menegaki while revealing unknown facts about the divorce from her ex-husband and how she managed it in relation to the children.

“My father left first when I was 19 years old. He had various health issues that came and got mixed up and he was gone pretty soon. He was older. He might come to school once in a while and they would tell me your grandfather came,” said Eliana initially, guiding Olga Lafa’zani around the area where she grew up.

-How old was he when you were born?

“He was over 55”

-And your mother passed away?

“In 2020. I had a really hard time with how one manages grief in the public sphere. The journalists who had heard about it were also pushing and calling me and wanting me to confirm or deny it, so all of that really made it very difficult for me at that stage. Ideally I would like to say nothing and spend it alone with my people”

-You were attached to your mother…

“Too. She had also grown up and had heart issues but it happened rather suddenly. The pain doesn’t go away, it just kind of gets used to it. You live with it and it sweetens a little, rounds out”

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-Are you a strong woman?

“Good question… Yes, I feel strong. Especially when you are going through bereavement, bereavement, divorce, financial difficulties at some point, mental health issues. These things make you so much better once you go through them.”

-What has helped you to be stronger?

“I’ll tell the guys. It is a great support which even if you want or have a natural tendency to fall, you cannot afford to do so and psychotherapy is very much”

-What led you to start psychotherapy?

“The sergeant. When my daughter was 8 months old I was just so confused. Am I a good mother? Am I good at my job? Am I a good wife? All this came and put a lot of pressure on me and I felt like I was losing my center a little bit”

-Practically, how did you figure it out?

“I was more angry and tense than I would have liked. I had no reason not to be very happy, essential”

-It can’t be better

“It really doesn’t get any better. We have had this flirtation with Natalia Germanou, whom I really appreciate, for a long time. It is very important that every person works in an environment in which they are not ashamed”

-You have been Eleni Menegaki’s favorite collaborator

“Great love from both sides. Many years, very dedicated to teaching me television, I will be forever grateful to her”

– Has she been strict with you?

“Eleni was and is, and may she always be, demanding. There’s no other way to unlock a partner if you’re not on top of patching them up.”

-You are a divorced new mother. What are the difficulties in everyday life?

“The girls have a great dad with whom we share everything. All the matters of raising them, entertaining them, financial matters, educational matters, he is very good so I have no practical difficulty in that.

On the days he’s with me, the fact that you can practically be at home with both kids and no one else is around and you have to go get a medicine because one of them got sick and you have nowhere to leave the other , yes, these are practical issues that I didn’t even know existed and it’s a difficulty”

-It was circulating like news but it took some time until you confirmed the breakup

“The children were also very young and I still think they are, so in general I try not to focus too much on the issue of divorce because at some point the girls and I will have many discussions about it, when they will be older and have more questions and I certainly don’t want to have spoken publicly first and then to them. Divorce is not easy. Yes, it had been done for quite some time but it had not been made public. Of course I wouldn’t take the initiative to tell the press”

-How did you manage it with the kids?

“He’s fine, that’s the important thing. They got it. They are happy because they get a lot of love in both houses. Surely all children would like their parents not to have divorced, but they are fine.”