Love Quote by Victoria Abril

There’s a sly accusation tucked into Victoria Abril’s line: television doesn’t merely reflect suffering, it recruits it. Coming from an actress who’s lived inside the machinery of spectacle, the quote reads less like moral panic and more like a weary backstage note about what the medium rewards. The verb choice matters. People don’t “end up” on TV; they “love coming.” Desire, not coercion, is the engine. Misery becomes an entry fee many will gladly pay.

The subtext is transactional. Television offers what daily life rarely does: visibility, validation, the promise of being heard. In exchange, it asks for something legible and saleable, and pain is both. Misery provides a ready-made narrative arc - victim, revelation, catharsis - that fits cleanly into a segment block and keeps viewers from changing the channel. Abril’s phrasing suggests a grim upgrade of confession: suffering isn’t private anymore, it’s content with lighting.

Contextually, the quote lands in a Europe that watched talk shows and reality formats metastasize from the late 1980s onward, turning personal breakdown into mass entertainment. Abril isn’t condemning “the people” so much as naming the feedback loop: audiences are trained to watch vulnerability; guests are trained to perform it; producers are trained to package it. The cruelest insight is that everyone gets something. Even misery can be alchemized into attention, and attention, in a culture of screens, can feel like a kind of love.