Andreas Mikrooutsikos gave a very interesting interview to the magazine "OK!"
Speaking about his return to television after a decade of abstinence, the presenter said: "There were offers, but I didn't have the strength. I was tired of a persecution. What do I mean by persecution? There had been this bankruptcy, they had taken everything I had and everything I didn't have and I was being hounded by the banks. In my last year at the Star I was coming home and I was getting doorsteps every day. This for months. I couldn't take it. I'd come home and when the doorbell rang I wouldn't answer it. And if the bailiff insisted, I would answer it and he would say very politely, "Good evening, you know..." and I'd say, "I know, I know..." I had houses in Patras, in Drafi, in Kifissia, in Milos and they were coming for auctions. For a year I listened to the doorbell and like Pavlov's dog I said to myself, "Doorbell". This gradually led me to isolation and I will explain why. In the early days some friends would come to the house to visit me. I remember I told them the story of how it all happened, and one of my friends burst into tears. Then I realized how much I was weighing on them and decided not to tell the story again. And so I isolated myself. Because anyone who came in out of interest would ask me, I, being a lariat, would tell them what was going on, it would weigh on their little heart, and I didn't want to be a burden on others. Having been accustomed to having others under the umbrella of my own giving, generosity and protection, I did not want to suddenly become the source of the problem. And I shut myself off."
Then speaking on the subject he explained how guilty he felt: "I felt guilty towards my friends, but mostly towards my son. While I could have given him a fortune as a springboard, I put him through the wringer, having of course given him everything up to that point. And while everyone thought this closeness of mine was depression, if you came to see me nonetheless, we'd have a good time, we'd laugh. It wasn't depression, it was self-isolation."
Source: protothema.gr
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