He was champion of Europe and Spain Superbikemanager of illustrious pilots such as Jorge Lorenzo, among many milestones that appear on his resume. In the world of motorcycling he had almost everything, but his cocaine addiction He snatched it away. Even health. During the presentation of his book My life, from 300 to 0 km – Back from the abyss announced that he has HIV. In order to be able to help others who find themselves in the same situation, Dani Amatriaín (Barcelona, 1966) records his rise and fall in his autobiographical book, and reviews those situations that took him to the lowest point and how he managed to leave them behind.
“My story could surely make people close to me uncomfortable,” says Amatriaín. “I have reached a point in my life where I don’t need to look back to pass accounts to the people who have hurt me,” maintains the former pilot. Even so, in the book, whose benefits will go to the Foundation Fight Infections chaired by Dr. Bonaventura Clotet, reviews his career as a driver and tiptoes through the “tripping” that some people around him gave him that made him hang up his monkey early and begin his career as a manager that lasted more than 12 years and that brought him so much trouble and joy.
The flirtation with cocaine
It was after retiring from motorcycling that he started fooling around with the cocaine, as the author relates: “Only on a social level, at first.” “But it ended taking the reins of my life”, ditches what was the first Spanish champion of an international event in the 500cc category. The addiction caused him to “ruin up” his marriage to his ex-wife Sandra and distanced him from his son Daniel, whose daughter, a year after being born, he only knew from photographs.
In his book, Amatriaín recounts chapter by chapter the phases of your addiction matching them with the people and moments in their lives in which they were happening. The eleven years of her together Jorge Lorenzo and his later stage in Barcelona nightlife After their painful breakup they caused the most fragile moment of his life. A harsh story, although seen from the distance of time and without delving into each of those traumatic moments, which serves to convey how cocaine took away everything from him: “My family, my friends and, although it is not the most important thing for me, also reputation, money and social position.”
“My decline to rock bottom was straight out of a movie. When Jorge informed me of our separation and his intention not to attend to the resolution of the contract, I fell into the clutches of drugs completely,” he says in his book. “I learned that when you have a problem, many people disappear and you are left completely solo”he states.
The devil: centers and relapses
“Drugs led me to know a part of life darkapproaching night racking with everything that entails: consumption of nightclubs, dangerous people, extortion, death threats…”, he remembers. His journey through addictions ended years later and after many tumbles, arrests and problems when his family, who with the exception of his mother had previously turned their backs on him, picked him up after an arrest in the Ciutat de la Justícia to place him in a detox center.
“It is difficult to put an end to the demon,” as Amatriaín calls addiction. “There were times when I thought I would have been better off jail”, he assures. In ten years, the former pilot was admitted to three centers. “I had relapses,” he ditches. Currently, after training as a therapist and with his experience as a coach, he has developed his own eight step guideline to help others in the same situation.
“To get out of drugs you have to find faith. In anything, but faith,” explains Amatriaín. His was based on helping others. “I’ve done a lot of work to forgive myself, and I have become very sensitive to people who suffer. Helping gives me feedback,” says the former pilot.
2024-04-18 15:56:55
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