Mary Barkouli made statements on the show “Proino” on Friday, October 25, and spoke about the eviction of Marina Nikolaidou from the Actor’s House.
The widow of the late Andreas Barkoulis claimed that she was making spare keys for the rooms and that she was not sleeping in her own but in the hallways on a dirty mattress. She also added that there were many complaints from other residents and that living with her was very difficult. Furthermore, she revealed that Marina Nikolaidou was taking the gifts brought to the Actor’s House and referred to an incident where she pushed Anna Fonsou.
Specifically, she said: “She was making spare keys and entering everyone’s rooms when they were absent, and many who lived there had complained. She said she was hosting her friends; which friends? I have been begging Anna Fonsou for months to find me a room because you know very well that widow’s pensions are miserable. And I said to her, ‘Anna, should I come and stay there?’ And she said to me, ‘Maria, listen to me, everything is full, and the actors take precedence, not you.’ And she is right. How can I tell a child who is studying and has nowhere to stay, ‘Leave’? There is a clause in the statute that states no one is allowed to stay for more than two years. People change and new ones come; they say, ‘I’m giving you a period to fix your life and get things in order,’ but afterward, someone else has to come and stay.”
She continued: “I received complaints. As for the work she did at the Actor’s House, she was paid by Ms. Fonsou, from Ms. Fonsou’s money every month. She had been given her room to stay alone, while others stayed in pairs, and she would take a mattress with a plastic cover and go floor by floor to sleep in the hallways, with the plastic cover in the dirt, and the children would open the door in the morning and see her right in front of them. I saw this with my own eyes. She would go and sleep wherever she found a place, while she had her room. Isn’t it a shame then that actors who truly need it cannot stay there? And she was not suddenly kicked out; Ms. Nikolaidou had been notified that she would leave. How did it come to her all of a sudden?”
Regarding her coexistence with the other residents, Mary Barkouli said: “The coexistence was terrible. No one wanted her. We would bring gifts to the Actor’s House, cakes, and snacks, and she hid them everywhere. I wonder how we didn’t send the regional governor to the hospital with the treats; she would take them out whenever she wanted, expired. She let them expire. The people living there couldn’t eat them; she hid them. We found hidden sweets everywhere. She never checked the expiration date.”
Finally, she referred to an incident where Marina Nikolaidou pushed Anna Fonsou: “Anna Fonsou is to blame because, so that Marina wouldn’t be alone, she would take her with her. We told her that Anna Fonsou would speak, and she pushed her, almost causing her to fall so she could speak into the microphone herself. I don’t know what obsessions each person has, and it doesn’t concern me, but I had spoken to her many times and told her, ‘Marina, don’t give reasons, don’t act like that.’”
