The hell of Bárbara Rey with Ángel Cristo: “He raped me by spitting in my face and calling me a bitch”

The relationship of the former vedette from Totana with the circus tamer began looking like a fairy tale, but later it became a nightmare. That happy ‘yes, I want’ that they gave each other on January 12, 1980 was later overshadowed by infidelities, drugs and mistreatment.

This is how she explained it herself Barbara Rey in the latest installment of his docuseries, a barbaric lifewhere he has recounted the episodes of sexist violence he suffered from angel christ. “I didn’t want him to touch me, the bed was two meters and I slept in a corner. He noticed and insulted me: ‘What’s wrong with you, bitch? You don’t want me to touch you, that you like those who pay,'” she says through tears.

The first time that the circus artist laid a hand on the actress was due to a chance encounter that she had with paquirri at the airport: “When I told him, that was the first time he slapped me that knocked me to the ground,” he recalls. Then, violent situations followed one another to the point that “the night I got pregnant my husband almost killed me.”

He saw the opportunity to get out of that stormy loop the day Ángel himself proposed a divorce in 1988: “One day he gets very upset and tells me: ‘I want to divorce you. If you don’t go, I’ll drag you by your hair ‘ At six in the evening I was at the lawyer’s door because I wanted a divorce.” But in the middle of the separation procedures, the tamer kept stopping by her house: “I lived alone, but he came when he wanted to. And he insulted me, he kicked my bedroom door and raped me by spitting in the door. face and calling me a bitch”.