The program ‘Una vida Bárbara’ ended this Wednesday with a final chapter in which the protagonist reviewed her second stage with the King Juan Carlos, with whom he resumed his relationship after his separation from Ángel Cristo. “We behaved like a normal couple. We talked, we saw each other, we ate, we laughed…”.
Barbara Rey He refused to see the emeritus in his own house and they agreed to do it in the famous Boadilla chalet, where they starred in very familiar scenes: “I prepared everything for him in my house, the best food, the whiskey, the cigarillo… And he gave me said ‘You don’t know how much I appreciate what you do considering the situation you’re in. At that time, the former vedette was going through serious financial problems but she assures that Juan Carlos I never helped her: “I had to sell my jewelry to feed my children. That’s how it was. And he didn’t have a detail. Well, he gave me a gold coin and when I went to pawn it they didn’t take it because it was 14 karats and the minimum was 18. Imagine”.
Shortly after, Barbara’s nightmare began: the wiretaps, the spies and the ‘black hand’ that removed her from television. Blackmailing Don Juan Carlos with compromising photographs at his side, he set off the alarms. Manglano, a former adviser to the king and former director of the CSID, was aware of everything: “In my house, the telephone was tapped. A van with bizarre antennas was parked at the door,” Bárbara recounted. “He sometimes told me compromising things on the phone and I asked him not to say them, because I knew they were listening to us, but he said he didn’t care. Once I heard them say: ‘Turn off the tape recorder, they’ve finished playing. talk’. And I told them ‘You are the dumbest thing in Spain’.
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At that time, Barbara denounced that two hooded men had broken into his house and they had stolen videotapes and cassettes that he kept in a safe: “I have two or three recordings, I don’t have the barbarities that they say I have. He sent many messages and they were on the answering machine, but I deleted them all.” So he feared for his life and shouted it from the four winds to protect himself: “They want to kill me but I’m going to get to the bottom of all this. The Spaniards don’t know whose hands we are in,” he said then.
Even today, Barbara denies having received money (600 million pesetas, as published) for his silence: “They have not reached me. The people who say I have them should prove it. I have not spoken because I did not want to. But come on, they still have time to give them to me. Your son has renounced the inheritance, right? Well, nothing, here I am, I’m in Marbella”. And he added: “My life without him was much more beautiful, easy and calm. Many times I have cursed the time we returned. I did not feel privileged, quite the contrary. Sometimes I wanted him to be interested in me, But he doesn’t care about anyone.”