Ronald Araújo, center-back for Barcelona, confessed that the dark side of social media has already impacted his family. The revelation was made in an excerpt from an interview with Mundo Deportivo published this Wednesday. "I try to protect myself, but when they mess with the family, it’s very complicated. Your wife, your father, your siblings… Maybe people can’t reach you directly, but they know that by targeting your family, they can," began the Uruguayan international. "I’ll tell you something to show the extent of what’s happening. I remember one day I was drinking mate with my wife. I saw her expression change as she looked at her phone, and tears started falling. I asked her what she had seen, what had happened. ‘I don’t understand the malice of people; they are wishing death on our daughters,’ she told me," he shared. "When things reach this level, you start to rethink many things; you see how crazy society is, how crazy people are on social media. It may not hit you directly, but the family suffers, your mother and your wife suffer, your siblings too. They will have to learn because it’s the world we live in today, unfortunately, but it’s hard when it affects the family," he emphasized. In the first part of the interview, released the day before, the player publicly addressed the break he took from his career due to mental health, saying that 'not everything is money, not everything is fame.' 'I had been dealing with anxiety for a year and a half, which turned into depression, and I was playing like that,' he recounted.
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