Although for days the name of Angel Christ Jr makes headlines for confronting his mother, Barbara Reyin full prime time After years of unconditional support, now it's the turn of Alejandro Sancho Jimenez. Telecinco announced this Friday that the son of Pepe Sancho y Maria Jimenez will be the next to speak in Friday! the talk show where he will bring out the darkest side of his family, marked for years by infidelities and abuse. At the moment, the second wife and widow of the Valencian actor, Reyes Monforte, trembles at what may happen: the hell against which the singer raised her voice two decades ago, and which put Sancho, accused of sexist violence, in the spotlight, is well known. Her son was always on the side of folklore, so her statements do not look good at all for the protagonist of Curro Jimenez.
Alejandro is the second son of the performer, who died in 2013, and the artist, who died last September. Born in February 1983, he has always been very close to his mother, especially after the death of his first-born, Rocío, at only 16 years old due to a car accident. “My daughter's death changed everything. From then on, I was a different person,” Jiménez said in an interview. The folklorist's life was marked by numerous tragedies, something that his son witnessed with his own eyes. So much so that it was he who made him change his mind regarding his relationship with Pepe Sancho: Alejandro discovered his father being unfaithful and, after telling the singer, she knew it was time to close the door on him.
In his autobiography, titled Shut up you scoundrel, Jiménez explains how his son made him aware of this betrayal. The young man entered his room without warning and, to his surprise, found him there with another woman. “I could no longer invent anything to continue deceiving me and I decided to end it all. It was necessary that we separate, because I knew that I would not be able to forget such a dirty trick, that I would never be able to trust that person again: if he had deceived me for a year , could have been doing it all his life. I never imagined life without Pepe, but I also didn't think I could fall so low; in my own house, in my bed and between my sheets”Jiménez said.
Likewise, Alejandro never felt comfortable. Although he was on his mother's side, it was sometimes difficult for him to confront Sancho. In one of the few interviews he gave, he said he felt pressured by both of them. The artist said that her ex-husband took her son one day “and, with the excuse that his grandmother was very sick, he took him to a notary in Valencia so that he would take his side. He told him that if he didn't, I would put him in jail. My son signed, but he called me crying. I told him not to worry, that we would go to another notary and revoke it. Then he stopped talking to his son. He never saw him again.” And he added: “During this time I have suffered for him, I know what it is like to be between a rock and a hard place.”
His mother was aware of the situation her son was going through: “I have lived like this for years, flying like a feather from one place to another, between the child and the father without knowing what to do. Alejandro is the best thing that has happened to me.” in life; he is noble, humble, loving and sensitive. When I see him laugh with his transparent and clean laugh, I feel compensated for everything,” said Jiménez. In 2009, the judge ruled that There was not “sufficient evidence” to prove “the facts reported” by the author of It's over. However, he acknowledged that the artist had been an abused woman during her marriage.
After so many traumatic episodes, Alejandro never reconciled with his father. In fact, she found out about the actor's death on television. “I would like to go and have him explain to me why he did that at that time. Sometimes I have dreams in which I talk to him and he comes in peace, like he hasn't died. I have a trauma,” he explained to the press. The following years would be calmer for both him and his mother, whom he cared for in her house in Chiclana de la Frontera, in Cádiz. The singer died from lung cancer on September 7, at the Quirón Infanta Luisa hospital in Seville.
Now, Alejandro manages the artist's image rights and is part of the foundation which she created to support women victims of gender violence and the LGTBI community. At 40 years old, He defines himself on his social networks as an 'artist', is married to Danae (whom he met in London) and is the father of two children, Julia and Álex.