Cristina Saralegui reveals what her son is like: he has a “bipolar disease”

Christina Saralegguiconsidered a legend in American Spanish television, has reappeared on television after a 14-year absence from the forums.

He did so on an emotional visit to his studio Wake up America this Monday, January 29, where she was also honored for her 76th birthday.

They talked about the legacy he has left on Spanish television, but also about some aspects of his life such as Jon Marco’s son’s health.

How is Cristina Saralegui’s son?

Jon Marco was diagnosed with bipolar at age 19, the anchor told CNN en Español in 2014.

Now, upon his reappearance on the morning news UnivisionHe said how is his son.

“That boy was so, so, so sick.”he said as a picture of Jon Marco flashed on the screen.

“This is my house”the author also revealed, “my son is doing so well, thank God.”

“Thank the Lord Jon Marco is doing well.” After so many years of bipolar illness, that people don’t know what that is.”

In 2014, when Saralegui interviewed Wake up Americagave more details about his son’s mental health condition.

“I found out what Jon Marco had when Jon Marco was 19. (I said), ‘There’s something weird here, but I don’t know what it is,’ and he was going to take life“There, I realized that it wasn’t that I was depressed, that something bad and ugly was going on,” she said.

“But I I didn’t know what to do because I didn’t know what I had. So what my son did was, look how my son is, he got in his car, he went to the hospital that’s around the corner from my house, he went to the mental hospital and he just signed and stayed there,” she said at the time.

Cristina Saralegui also went to the psychiatrist

In the conversation she had with CNN en Español in 2014, the host said that she also went to a psychiatrist after learning about her son’s condition.

” I started going to this psychiatrist with my son. And that’s how I saved his life,” he recalled at the time.

“Almost no Latino understands what mental illness is,” he said, “if the procession is in, no Latino wants to go to a psychiatrist because they’re going to be told they’re crazy.”

Cristina Saralegui is married to Marcos Ávila. They met when she was 35 and he was 24. In April 1986, Jon Marco, their only child together, was born.

“Bipolar disorder” It is a mental illness that can be chronic (meaning it is persistent or occurs all the time) or episodic (meaning it occurs occasionally and at irregular intervals),” states the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) on its website.

The foundation notes that “people with this disorder have manic episodes or unusually elevated moods in which they may feel very happy, irritable, or ‘hopeful’ and in which there is a marked increase in activity level.”

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