Clara de Souza is the main face of SIC’s “Jornal da Noite”. The 55-year-old journalist says she lives for her work…but there are huge losses in her personal life that have shaken her and forced her to find the strength to work through the pain.

In an interview with Joya TVClara de Souza speaks, among other things, of two tragic losses: the death of her mother, with whom she had a very close relationship, a victim of cancer, and more recently the death of her father, whom she describes as a “big warrior”. Two moments that forced her to find strength within herself.

“Losing my mother, losing my father, losing people physically… The last thing I had to deal with was being an orphan. Let’s put things bluntly, that’s obviously what gets me going. I’m not hemisphere and strength and I’m going to drown out sorrows, no. Usually, I have a period of regression in which I deal with the pain, and in which I look forward to my future,” he says in an interview with TV Guia.

Despite the suffering, she ensures that it is not associated with pain. “No, I’m dealing with the pain, in those moments. Then I gather my strength, take the pain and move on,” he says. “Well, I have to take care of others and I have to take care of myself. And I love life. I love living. I happily do what I love. I’m a really happy person and I don’t depend on others to be happy,” he adds.

He always speaks with great affection of his mother, with whom he learned to cook. “My mother is my guide: I started working at the age of 11, at a time when Portugal was living under a dictatorship and people were so poor, they didn’t go to school. My maternal grandmother was illiterate. In my family, everyone was women with great ability to learn, but with A difficult life, which did not allow them to move forward, ”she laments. “My mother lived her whole life and died working. She lived a little while. And sometimes I think about it. I’ve gotten to this point in life where I work a lot and still devote myself to a hobby, which is also just work, and I keep thinking: ‘Where do you want to go?’ What’s your time?”, he adds in this interview, available in full at Digital edition or on newsstands.