Aitana reveals the illness she has suffered in silence: "I couldn't get out of bed"

BarcelonaAitana Ocaña is about to release her documentary, Metamorphosis, which will be released on February 28 on Netflix. For this reason and after a long time, the singer who began her musical career in OT She is on a promotional tour in different media, which is the opportunity to explain, confirm and deny the information that paparazzi and gossip magazines have been spreading about her for months. This Wednesday night the singer from Sant Climent de Llobregat did not miss the opportunity to speak on the RTVE program The revolt about her professional career, public exposure and the psychological management she has had to undertake to cope with different mental health illnesses.

Without David Broncano going into the matter, Aitana let loose. "Sometimes you don't know much about why you wake up sad every day and cry all the time. You go to the psychiatrist and he tells you that you have depression," she explained naturally about what she suffered during the year she was filming the documentary. Even so, she also wanted to express that she is aware of the professional success she has: "The reality of my life is that, damn, I have little to complain about, me." Broncano told her: "Of course you can complain! Complain!" But Aitana repeated again that she was aware of how lucky she had been. The conversation and the sincerity of the Catalan woman deserved the applause of the entire audience.

It was the time when Aitana spoke most clearly about her mental health, although in recent months she had already publicly asked the media and fans to reduce the surveillance and persecution to which she was subjected lately. "I come from a humble class, I have never lacked anything, but my parents have had their difficulties at some point. But when I turn 18 I don't start to have facilities, I start to have many facilities," explained the artist about the turn that his life had taken due to his move to the contest ofOperation Triumph in 2017. "Not just because of the economy, David, because of everything else. You have privileges all the time," he said.

The impact of the disease on his professional career

She also explained in detail some of the encounters with her family, such as with her cousin, who is a carpenter and works long hours. "I tell him my problems, but when I see his face I realise that what I'm telling him are First World problems, it's absolute shit." Even so, she confessed that there had come a time when she had even considered stopping her musical career: "I considered stopping everything for three months, because I couldn't get out of bed."

The support that Aitana has received

The diagnosis of depression helped her understand that her professional success did not prevent her from having a mental health problem. "Now I am in the process of getting better, because this does not heal overnight, and I am also on medication," she revealed for the first time. At the same time, she also said that she is hypochondriac "at an extreme, maximum level," which is why she has had to undergo therapy. "I have come to the point of eating with my family and thinking: 'This is the last dinner with my family,'" she explained.