Roula Koromila[/B] was interviewed on Eleni Menegaki's show and talked about her personal life and the balance she is trying to find between it and her profession.
The presenter also referred to a time when her life was in danger due to a serious health problem.
"I never took the pressure of work at home. When I did go, I was a mutant. I suppressed myself because I didn't want to displease my partner and perhaps, that reinforced the breakdown of relationships. So, when I let the strain of work get to me at home, I broke up. I put a lot more emphasis on work. When you're in a championship sport, you have to keep it up and fight harder. That's what I did and I paid dearly for it," she said.
As she went on to say, she worked so much that she lost herself and the meaning of relationships. "At some point, I couldn't take it, something broke inside me and I said where is Rula? Who loves her? Who cares about her, apart from my family, who are my support. I wanted to be left alone and come to terms with myself and see what was going on inside me. With all the pressure, stress and beating I was getting from left and right, being told about me and trying to cover it up so as not to upset my parents," she explained.
This pressure also affected her health. "My body started to shake and I got sick. I couldn't stand it, I had no strength. I went to think and I couldn't, I couldn't sleep, my legs wouldn't hold me. I was in a bad state. I was scared. Not of losing my job, but of not dying. I retired, I had a hard time, I almost touched death. It touched me," she revealed.
Finally, she stressed that she managed to cope with autoimmunity with the strength she drew from herself. "I drew strength from myself, I drew great strength. If I didn't draw strength, I wouldn't have been able to deal with it. It was something autoimmune, my body created it," she explained in closing.
Source: Proto Thema
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