“I had been waiting for this moment for over 60 days. All I could think about were those children. I had been yearning for their touch for two months,” said Anna Wójcik in an interview with TV Republika, recalling the day she was released from custody.
Anna Wójcik, the former director of the Prime Minister’s Office under Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, was a guest on the television program “Dzisiaj” hosted by Danuta Holecka.
The former official was released from detention on Thursday. The prosecution yielded to public and media pressure, deciding to revoke the temporary arrest imposed on the mother of a gravely ill child. Non-custodial preventive measures were applied instead, including a financial surety of 400,000 PLN, which was posted by Joanna Jenerowicz, president of the Niezależne Media Foundation.
Speaking on TV Republika, Wójcik recounted her first moments after leaving custody:
“As soon as my husband received information of my release, he took our two children, and they all jumped in the car and rushed to Katowice. To their mother,”
she began.
“In the meantime, there was a phone call—asking when they would arrive, how much farther they had to go. For the most part, there was silence on the line. In the background, I could hear the children crying. But it was the sound of joyful weeping. When they arrived in Katowice, when the four of us threw our arms around one another, that silence and the tears in our eyes lingered for a long time,”
Wójcik recounted.
“‘Mommy, finally,’ my son said. ‘Mommy, I love you more than life itself,’ my daughter said. Again, there were tears of joy. I’ve experienced many joyful moments in my life, but those tears will stay with me forever. I had been waiting for this moment for more than 60 days. All I could think about were my children. I had longed for their touch for two months,”
she admitted in the interview.
She emphasized that “upon returning home, amidst all the euphoria, difficult conversations began.”
“These were hard questions from the children—and even harder answers from me. The children asked why it had to be me,”
she recalled.
She noted that her children “do not live in some kind of bubble”; “they were fully aware of what was happening—thanks to the media, the hate directed at me, and the information they received from friends at school. They were up to date.”