The television program ‘And now Sonsoles’ has received a special guest. It is not common to find underage interviewees with their feet as firmly on the ground as Álvaro Torres, the son of the architect Joaquín Torres and the artist Mercedes Rodríguez. The young man, who is only 17 years old, has told of his complicated experiences with addictions at his young age.
“My friends grew up very quickly. Alcohol is very normalized and I started drinking very early, when I was 15 years old. From there came tobacco and drugs appeared. You see that your friends are having fun and you want to too, but you don’t realize what you are doing. The first year I didn’t even feel bad and I took it for granted that it was normal,” he explained.
Everything changed one day unexpectedly. Álvaro, who had a microcar, was surprised by law enforcement agents while he was driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. Besides, There was a passenger inside the trunk because they did not have space to take her inside the passenger compartment.. “My world fell apart,” she recalled.
“I was a minor and an adult had to come. I called my mother, because I knew that my father’s fight was going to be fatal. They both took it pretty well. I told my father a couple of weeks later and he got the typical father’s anger because he’s worried about you. “He gave me a talk telling me what I was doing with my life,” he confessed.
With his story, which he also tells on his social networks with details and details, the teenager aims to raise awareness among other young people in similar situations. In his case, thanks in part also to the family’s economic situation, fashion and university studies that he is going to start in London have changed his life. ““If you have been lucky enough to have a good situation and not have to worry about what you are going to eat the next day, you are wasting your time ruining your life and making a fool of yourself.”has settled.
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