The current ambassador of Colombia at FAO, Armando Benedetti, He spoke about his relationship with alcohol, substances and the future with his wife, in the midst of the call for statements made by the Prosecutor’s Office for the audios of the ‘Petro Presidente’ 2022 campaign.
The diplomat confirmed that he is in Barranquilla, as revealed RCN FM in recent daysto meet some members of his family and, in the process, begin a rehabilitation and detoxification process.
“I arrived on Wednesday of last week, I am in a rehabilitation and detoxification process. In mid-September I had a routine exam, they ordered a colonoscopy and they found a cyst, a pre-cancer, I was in good health,” said the diplomat in an interview with Semana magazine.
Benedetti also revealed that he had a surgical procedure done in Barranquilla, and that “led me to think that I have to change my lifestyle, to improve the management of emotions, stress. My cyst was 8 centimeters long and they removed it.” “.
Benedetti added that the rehabilitation process is being carried out in Mexico, in the city of Mazatlán. “There they make you introspect, a retrospective of what your whole life is, and you start to really talk with feelings. One seems to forget one’s feelings,” he said. He also assured that “I will never really heal from alcoholism, what I can do is recover.”
Finally, He announced that in 1995 he was in rehabilitation and “clean, as we say, without consuming absolutely anything for 13 years.” Until 2008 when “I relapsed again. Seeing that I had gotten ahead, I made the decision, for my family, for my father, for my mother, for my wife, for my children, for quality of life, for physical and mental health.” .
Ambassador Armando Benedetti revealed that during the 2022 campaign he was not consuming. “Alcoholics and addicts have a particularity and that is that, when there are problems, that is when we move further away from consumption,” he said.
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