Eleonora Meleti was a guest on the show “Smile and Again” today, Sunday, for an all-encompassing interview with Sissy Christidou and her colleagues.

“I love this place. I love MEGA. I had very nice relationships. I had a very, very nice time and as a general feeling, nostalgic. I see faces I haven’t seen in a long time. I see you. I see through the internet television,” Eleonora Meleti said initially.

Eleonora Meleti then said, “I might put on clips from morning shows before I get ready to go to the office at night. I might look through social media to find something. I read headlines about what’s going on for sure. I can feel the pressure. I feel it because I also have the psychology of someone who has lived it. I understand how a presenter can feel when things are said about them, when there’s a threat to ratings.

I feel for the faces, I understand the struggles and the battles that are going on. I get sad, to tell you the truth, for some so. I’m saddened that the ratings are massively depressed. But there’s something in the back that says something that the TV people need to read and I’m putting myself in it. I love television. I’ve made a living out of it for 25 years. It’s the reason why, why I’ve built a relationship with people.

I felt like I couldn’t do it because I wanted to put all my energy into this new venture of the European Parliament. That is not to say that at some point in the future, if the condition became such that I could return, that I would not do so. I’m not ruling anything out, but it’s not that I have a contract ready to sign and come back.”

Eleonora Meleti referred to her daughter, Alexandra, and her husband, Thodoris Marosoulis: “I try to explain to my daughter that we have to respect ourselves, our dignity, so that we can recognize if others respect us. And when we see that we are not respected, we leave. We neither beg, nor negotiate, nor endure, nor hope. The abusive environments are clear. We have to walk away. And I try to let her know that she deserves to be respected and loved and cared for.

It also helps a lot that I have an excellent male role model in the house. It’s an ideal role model for a girl that Theodore has. It’s touching how good a male role model he is! He is the kind of dad who is loving, he is outgoing! So he shows his girl how to be loved by a man. He shows it both through his attitude to me, and through his attitude to the child. So I think that, he is getting impulses of how to recognize where he stays and where he goes.”