Barbara Rey is on the front page of news for the premiere of Christ and King in Atresplayer, the series that deals with her marriage to the circus tamer angel christ. In this fiction, created by Daniel Ecijathere is also space for the figure of the King Juan Carloswith whom the former vedette had an alleged affair in the late 70’s.
The one from Totana, who this Thursday also went through the set of Sonsoles Ónega, has opened up about it: “Those who say that I have not been to Zarzuela. Of course I have! Now, what I am not going to clarify is under what conditions”, he confessed in Vanity Fair. “He saw me on TV and he fell in love with me, of course. Of course. It was like that. But we had to meet, do you understand me?”, She explained.
Regarding their meetings, he has assured that Doña Sofía’s husband was looking for her on a motorcycle, as seen in the Atresmedia series: “Yes, he did it on one or two occasions.” Regarding the places where they supposedly met: “There was a season in which we were seeing each other in a place that was full of cameras and microphones from CESID. The chalet on Calle Sextante.”
Rey has also explained that the emeritus was a man with different facets: “He was different. You also have to recognize that his position, being who he was… He went for seasons. I don’t like to offend anyone, do you understand me? But come on “I think he was very fond of me at one point. Whether he loved me or not… I think in a big season, yes. But of course, I knew I couldn’t aspire to anything else.”
Decades later and open on the channel as few times before on this subject, she has assured that she felt love for him: “I do. I loved him a lot. What happens is that we had a pact from the beginning, he had his life, I had mine. We knew there couldn’t be anything else.”
On the other hand, he has denied some of the rumors that have been circulating for decades, such as that both were presented by the former Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez: “Suárez did not introduce us, he introduced himself (…) I was excited, scared, I don’t even have words to define it. And obviously I am not going to reveal more, but what I do say clearly is that Suárez did not introduce him to me I didn’t have any kind of friendship with Adolfo Suárez. No kind of friendship, eh? And when I say no kind… Another thing is that I collaborated in the UCD campaign”.
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It all ended when Ángel Cristo came into her life: “It’s not that it broke, it’s that as soon as I met my husband, I never saw him again.” The former vedette and the tamer married in 1980 and contact with Don Juan Carlos continued, although in a different way: “When I was married, he called me on the phone on many occasions. In a friendly way, eh? And he always had the consideration to ask about me. husband and for my children. Sometimes she told me that she remembered me, that kind of thing, but I told her to be careful and not to say anything like that to me because… There were several phones at home and you could pick them up and listen But personally I never saw him again.”
Barbara has also denied that she has used the people’s money thanks to her relationship with the father of the infantas Elena and Cristina: “They do not stop lying and saying barbaric things, like they have given me 600 million from the public coffers. I have I had a number of problems, to put in my face that lots of people, that you can not imagine. How come I have lived on public money? Please! That is tremendously strong! Tremendously strong! “. Thus, she explodes when this lurid topic for her comes up: “Man! How am I not going to deny it! It’s a lie! It’s a lie! Now, if I have worked on public television , and they have paid me with money, logically the money will be public”.
At the same time, he denies the alleged blackmailing of the king so as not to tell his story: “Not me. This is said in a way… It is that this is not the case, far from it. Explaining it would take a long time. I will do it, but when I see fit.”