“This sixth season of Masterchef celebrity is going to be remembered as the Verónica Forqué season”. This was announced by Miki Nadal the day his partner went to the set of the TVE-1 show to announce that she was hanging up her apron because her body was telling her that “she needed to stop”. Nobody imagined how meaningful those words would become a few weeks later, following the tragic death of the veteran and respected actress.
The great mental health taboo in Spain
Verónica Forqué’s death has sparked a debate on mental health in our country and the unspoken problem of suicide. Suicide is the leading cause of unnatural death in Spain. In our country, there are more suicides than deaths on the roads. In 2020 alone, 3,941 people took their own lives, according to data published by the National Institute of Statistics. The death of actress Verónica Forqué at the age of 66 after taking her own life at her Madrid home has not only shaken the cultural world, but has also put the media spotlight on the great mental health taboo in Spain: suicide.