The first major interview of the Minister of Tourism and Member of Parliament of Athens, Olga Kefalogiannis after her episodic separation from Mino Matsa was deeply emotional, but completely conscious.

Olga Kefalogianni spoke to Katerina Kainourgiou and the show “Super Katerina” about her episodic divorce from Mino Matsa, their legal dispute after the separation and her absolute priority which is her twin three-year-old children.

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“So many women are going through what I’m going through. And the reason I think it is good for us who are also public figures to be very real about what happens to us is precisely because in the end I think we all have identifications and very common paths despite the fact that we may have completely different circumstances in our daily lives. It is a message to all women, no matter what happens to us, that we must move forward and hold very high what we love the most, our children” Olga Kefalogianni said initially and continued:

“Obviously going to court was not my choice, I was forced. The only reason was because I felt that as a mother I had to be there for my children, however difficult this may be for Olga who is also a public figure. And that, if you like, is also the difficulty of being a public figure.

One may feel that because he is a public figure he is not allowed to resort to justice like any other citizen. And that’s what I did and I’ll do it again. I was there to claim my children’s rights and that for me is non-negotiable. We all have the right to bend. “Did I win? am i defeated I only know one thing, I’m full of wounds, but I’m holding on,” said Kazantzakis. I want to see the future with optimism. No matter how difficult the phase I’m going through, I always want to be positive and optimistic about the future”

-In my eyes and that of many viewers, you were the perfect couple. Two people who fell very in love, I remember your interviews, suddenly it’s like everything falls apart

“My big dream was to have a family. I grew up in a very happy family. My sisters were my support. I have a mother who has given me endless tenderness and a father who was strict but was always there. That was my dream too. Unfortunately my dream from one point onwards could not be completed. However, I maintain that I have two wonderful children. My family is these children. They grow up with my mother, my sisters and their cousins.”

-What went wrong and this “perfect marriage” fell apart?

“Better not to talk about them and let the natural judge decide the case. Ultimately for all of us what exists is Justice. I seek her and I appeal to her”

-Has it not happened to you with all that is written that you want to leave and give it all up?

No, I didn’t feel the need to disappear at all, I am their safety net and now I have to be even stronger and a role model because after some years my children will look for what happened, so I am very careful in my movements. And in what I say and in what I write and in how my behavior is in general. I want my children to feel through all of this that the treatment of their mother was the treatment of a woman who is trying to keep her dignity and the dignity of her children.”

– I remember in your joint interview with Nikos Hatzinikolaou you said that this was something that should have happened. Do you believe it now?

“When there are two children, all this overshadows anything negative. I keep the positive side of the case, which is that I became a mother, and that defines me more than anything else. Because we are in an ongoing process, I think some things have been made public and are obvious. It is clear that from a point on one cannot proceed otherwise. You look for a consensual solution, otherwise you proceed with what is provided by law”