The death of 19-year-old Myrto in Kefalonia has shocked the nation, not only because of her tragic end but also due to the circumstances under which such a young girl, full of dreams and prospects, lost her life. In a cruel twist of fate, her mother was on duty that very night at the hospital and came face to face with her daughter’s lifeless body.

One of Myrto’s close friends spoke to protothema.gr about a girl full of kindness and grace. “That’s how we will remember her, with her smile,” they said, still struggling to process the loss, while revealing the tragic irony involving her mother.

According to the friend, Myrto’s mother, who works as a private nurse at the Kefalonia hospital, was called down to the emergency department on that fateful night without knowing what she would encounter. There, she was confronted with the most devastating sight—seeing her daughter dead.

In the photo below, published by protothema.gr, Myrto is pictured with her mother at the blessing ceremony of her nursing school last October.

Myrto’s sister lashes out: “Is the issue how she dressed and whether she had lip fillers, or that some people abandoned her and she died?”

Myrto’s sister intervened on the show “Truths with Zina” on Thursday afternoon, calling for an end to negative comments about the appearance of the young woman from Kefalonia.

In her message, the 52-year-old urged people to stop focusing on what Myrto wore or whether she had lip fillers, and instead concentrate on the essence of the matter—that a young person lost her life.

“I don’t know the case file and I cannot accuse anyone out of pain, but there is a crime, a mistake, a situation that is wrong,” she said, adding: “Is your problem to sit and comment on social media that this girl had lip fillers? That she was ‘plastic’? That she went out? Is that the issue? Or that there are people who abandoned her and she died? You should be ashamed. We are giving importance to things we should be ignoring right now. We are giving value to people whose only purpose is to throw mud.”

Her sister’s message

Visibly shaken, Myrto’s sister said on air:

“I want to ask—if not everyone, then at least the local community here in Kefalonia, the place I love deeply—even if I didn’t grow up here because I was in Athens—please, from the bottom of my heart, show some respect. If not to the event itself, then to its outcome. A human being was lost, a 19-year-old soul. Stop exploiting the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ just to gain a moment of importance in your lives. Please.

I understand that some people, from the safety of their homes, may have been raised not to look at the depth of a problem, but to circle around it just to sound clever and get a ‘like’ or approval. And they throw mud to feel like they matter, like their life has meaning. I’ve had enough of this my whole life. What did the father do, what did the mother do, what did the sister do, why does she have nails, why does she have lips, why did she wear a mini skirt. Is that the problem? How she looked and how she dressed?

Is that the issue we should be dealing with right now? I don’t know the case file and I can’t accuse anyone out of pain, but there is a crime, a mistake, a terrible situation. We all have children—and your concern is to comment on social media about what? That this girl had lip fillers? That she was ‘plastic’? That she went out? Is that the issue? Or that there are people who abandoned her and she died?

You should be ashamed. We are focusing on things we should be ignoring right now. We are giving value to people whose souls exist only to throw mud. I’m tired, after 52 years, of hearing this constant slander. What did my father do, what did my mother do, what did Myrto’s mother do, what did Myrto do—but you don’t look at what was done to Myrto, you don’t look at what is happening to your own children, you don’t look at what is happening in this rotten society.”