“I came to play for pay”: Journalist Fernando Cairoli’s raw story about his experience with gambling addiction

This morning, journalist Fernando Caroli Revealed his experience with gambling addiction. This happened in Kalpa good Morning Americaorganized by Fabian DomanAnd the trigger for the confession was Interview with Nicolas Cayetano in InfobayIn which he admitted that one day he lost everything and had no way to pay for it: “I cried all night.”

After listening to Cayetano, Cairoli empathized with his story and was encouraged to share details about his gambling addiction, Furthermore, he explained how, at one time in his life, he had become deeply involved in sports betting, which affected his emotional health. “I usually do things on my social networks, I never do anything that has to do with betting houses. I thank everyone who invited me to take commercial action with it, but I’m not interested in communicating it and I’m not interested in anyone entering that world,” he explains. At that time he was blunt.

As he explained, his position did not end like Cayetano’s, because “he performed well” in those stakes. Cairoli said, “That’s why I don’t even tell, because I’m retired from that,” and identified some differences of opinion regarding what happened to her colleague; However he also highlighted some general points.

,i bet on sports, I kept thinking all day about what bet I have to place and who I have to win to win. i bet a lot Tennis and also FootballBut In a while The frustration was such that when there was no match going on I bet on ping-pong, I used to sit and watch those matches, trying to get one Korean or one Chinese to win against the other,” he recalled at the point when his actions began to intensify.

In his story, Károlyi recalled an incident from the year 2008When he was an apprentice at a job whose salary did not exceed $450 (NDR: about $250 thousand pesos today), “My mom was going to die and they punished me at work. In the application I found a chance to win. I’ve been waiting all day“, he recalled the moment he fell into gambling, which coincided with the personal and work problems he was already experiencing.

Regarding what he experienced at that time, the journalist revealed an anecdote that was “funny” because “it ended well.” As he tells it, it happened one morning when he found himself waiting alone to play in the Mexican Championships. “They were It was two in the morning and I was watching a Mexican soccer game, not because of attraction, but because that was what the stake was at that time. My wife was sleeping next to me. The condition was whether there was a target in a certain period of time or not. Remember my salary was $450 and I bet $500 Because no goal was going to be scored there. The page refreshed and I bet there was going to be a goal in the next minute,” he said.

“There was a penalty, they started arguing and I thought if they went ahead at that time I would lose the bet. He finished the fight, the penalty was scored, he scored a goal and I won a very significant amount of money. I tried to wake up my wife, I was celebrating alone,

And he added: “I was so bad my mother died Two months before my son was born. I was also upset about something at work, about someone who wasn’t nice to me and detracted from my work. Looking back, anyone can fall into those moments of weakness“, he admitted.

At the end of his story, Fernando Cairoli said that it was an important producer who helped him change his perspective on gambling and explained how, through a conversation, he began to reconsider the impact of addiction on his life and Resolved to stop betting.

Similarly, he also threw light on Negative impact of public figures who promote this activity On social media, it was suggested that this was not an appropriate message to the public: “I see people I look up to and admire connecting with the world of sports and creating streams And I don’t know if that’s the message that needs to be delivered to your audience,” he concluded.

testimony of Nicolas Cayetano at Infobae was the trigger for Fernando Caroli This Thursday the Americans will give their testimony on screen. This note was published this weekend infobae And in it, former member of the radio program Perros de la Calle was encouraged to tell in detail about his experience with a silent addiction like gambling.

“It’s a disease that engulfed me, I didn’t know how to handle it,” he said of his experience, which he was able to put into words in the book. it doesn’t move forward (Orsai). “It is not easy to tell whether someone has this addiction or not. If it smells of alcohol, you’ll notice. If it comes in large quantities, you pay attention. “If it comes from gambling… it’s very difficult,” he said.

Regarding how he managed to overcome his addiction, Cayetano explained: “If it’s not financially complicated, don’t go out., that’s why i went I put myself in a place where I couldn’t pay the debt anymore and then I needed to scream and let it be known, And once you tell it and open it up in your circle, it’s different: They start controlling you, monitoring you. You can’t do that anymore. at one point i lost The apartment that my grandmother gave me. That was the lowest point I reached., I also lost a car. But I played a trick, like a trick: I bought another car in installments, then I said that, in fact, I had changed the car. “He did everything the same, legal, but weird, so no one would know.”