From her two great loves to the tragedy that forever marked her life and that of her daughters

Coinciding with the first anniversary of his death, Spanish Television broadcast the documentary last night Maria Teresa Campos, in her own wayproduced by Cuarzo Producciones for RTVE and directed by Carmen Borrego and Ricardo Pardo. The production highlighted the professional successes of the communicator and showed her most intimate side with previously unpublished material and the testimony of, among others, her daughters, her granddaughters, two of her best friends and several coworkers.

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María Teresa Campos began her career at Radio Juventud La Voz de Málaga when she was just 15 years old and it was there that she met her first love: José María Borrego.She fell in love with one of the radio stations and that’s where her wedding and her daughters came from.“, recalled her cousin Leli Luque while images of the wedding were broadcast, which took place on September 12, 1964 in the cathedral of Malaga. That day, both were the living image of happiness, however, “the couple grew apart until it ended.” In fact, when María Teresa moved to Madrid in 1981 to work as the director of News for Radio Cadena ” Their marriage was no longer so beautiful“.

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In Madrid, according to her closest friends, she discovered a new life. “She didn’t have doubts about the decision she made, it caused her pain. A woman who leaves her home and her daughters to go work in Madrid to conquer the world. That was not in accordance with the canons of the time,” said the writer Pilar del Río.It’s not that she was a flirt, it’s that she flirted, people came out to her like that. Her cousin and I have very intimate things about her that we cannot tell, that she comes out tonight and pulls my hair out,” joked her friend Trini Labrador. Journalist Pilar Falagán said that Maria Teresa was “very amorous and absolutely passionate” And the writer Pilar del Río pointed out that when she fell in love it was “horrible.” “She didn’t talk about anything else and she didn’t do anything else, she was obsessively in love and yes, she had two or three strong and very interesting relationships.”

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Terelu, for her part, said that her mother had had two great loves.On the one hand, my father. He was the one she married and had a mother with. On the other hand, Félix Arechavaleta. They were in a relationship for 14 years and for me he was my father.“, the presenter confessed excitedly.

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In 1984, three years after her arrival in Madrid, María Teresa received the worst news. “It was summer, July, then the phone rang at the control room and I picked it up,” explained Elvira Lindo, who was then working with her on the radio. “They told me they were from Radiocadena Málaga and that they had to locate María Teresa. I told them she had just left and they told me to run after her because her husband had taken his own life. It seemed strange to me that they announced it like that,” recalled the writer of Manolito GafotasAt the time of his death, José María Borrego Doblas was 48 years old and was the director of Radiocadena in Marbella. He was buried in the San Miguel cemetery in Málaga.

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Terelu and Carmen also spoke about that terrible event. “I only remember being at my aunt Leli’s house, the phone ringing, seeing my aunt’s face and saying: ‘What you’re hearing is anything but good.’ Afterwards, my mother called us into the living room, sat between my sister and me, and told us that she had to tell us something. And I said: ‘He did it, he did it‘. So he didn’t get a chance to say it, because the moment I saw my mother, I became aware that he had taken his own life“, Terelu said.

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Carmen thanked her mother for the way she dealt with such a traumatic event. “I think that my mother’s way of dealing with it did us good because she didn’t deceive us. That brought the three of us together,” the collaborator confessed. “My sister and I always told my mother that she hadn’t been guilty of anything because there were people who said that if she hadn’t gone to Madrid, that if she hadn’t done anything… For us it was essential that our mother didn’t think she was responsible,” she added.