Simón relapses after two months clean and just one day alone

Two months clean, and he relapsed on the very first day he was alone

He tells the story himself, as recorded in the thread: he leaves a detox centre after two months of treatment, spends one day without company and goes back to using. The excuse, if that's what it is, takes the exact shape of a symptom: he doesn't want to be alone. That is what the story of a relapse clings to, one that repeats with the punctuality of a doctor's appointment.

Simón's case —known for the mortgages video that made him popular years ago— is back in the news because of a video showing him gaunt, with battered arms and a bag of cocaine of minimal quantity. His age is estimated at around 41 or 42. His appearance, according to the most repeated description, is that of a 60-year-old.

What is known about the relapse and his circle

The account being circulated places the start of his drug use before his relationship with Silvia Charro: he would have started using when his ex-partner, the mother of his only child, left him. Then came Silvia, an attempt to have a child together that did not go ahead and, on that ground, more use. Someone sums up the sequence with a sentence that needs no adjectives: "In the end he uses any tiny excuse to keep using".

Silvia, according to that same account, has already quit drugs and ended the relationship. Simón is said to have tried to quit to win her back, promise included. With that promise broken, the excuse changes shape but not function. The result is always the same: the substance needs no reasons, it only needs the person to be alone.

The legal problem still hanging over him

On top of the addiction there is a court battle. On the table is a sentence of 10 years in prison and a 14 million euro fine, according to the figures being cited. He would have served close to six years, which would still leave him far from an open-regime placement. The multi-million fine, in practice, is a figure that will hardly ever be collected.

That cocktail —a sentence, addiction, a breakup and a child he barely sees— paints a picture with no shortcuts. The question hanging in the air is not whether he will relapse again, but how long his body can sustain a pace that has aged him two decades in five years.

The body holds up longer than the mind

The most repeated observation in recent hours has something of an involuntary diagnosis: the body resists far more than the mind. Addiction is not measured in grams or months of treatment, but in the ability to rebuild a routine that does not depend on someone else's presence. Two months in a centre is not a cure. It is a pause.

And what if the relapse were not the failure of the treatment, but confirmation that the problem was never the substance? The question remains there, unanswered, with no centre that can solve it in a day.