The actress and vedette (72 years outdated) breaks her silence concerning the nearly 20-year relationship she had with the emeritus, solely interrupted by her marriage to Ángel Cristo “I used to be the one one left to say it.” “We had a pact, he had his life, I had mine. We knew there might be nothing else ”She denies that she was given 600 million from public coffers in change for her silence:“ That’s a lie! ”
Bárbara Rey was 25 years outdated when she met King Juan Carlos I. The relaxation is a narrative that each one Spaniards know, however that she was reluctant to speak about, till at this time. After greater than 4 a long time avoiding commenting on the alleged affair that she had with the monarch, the actress, star and presenter has determined to interrupt her silence at 72 years of age.
“I’ve beloved King Juan Carlos very a lot. I might sing that track by Julio Iglesias: ‘I’ve taken one of the best of your life’”, he says in an interview for Vanity Fair journal, on the event of the premiere of the sequence Cristo y Rey that recounts his life with the deceased circus tamer Angel Christ.
Barbara Rey, on the duvet of Vanity Fair journal
I communicate now as a result of I used to be the one one left to say it
He assures that he has determined to talk now as a result of “I used to be the one individual left to say it.” “They have been speaking about me and this story for 200 years. Now they blame me for admitting that I’ve been with him, please! !… And I’m not allowed to say that I’ve had a relationship with an individual?”; She explains about her determination to lastly communicate brazenly concerning the relationship of virtually 20 years, with ups and downs, that she had with the then King of Spain, making the Crown, varied governments and CESID tremble.
The story of Bárbara Rey and the emeritus: who launched them and the way he went unsuitable due to his “girlfriend”, Marta GayáGetty Images
We had a pact, he had his life and I had mine, we knew there might be nothing else
Bárbara Rey admits to having beloved the king, of whom she speaks with nice respect, however having at all times been conscious that the connection had no future, because of the king’s marriage to Queen Sofía and the scandal that their story would have precipitated at the moment. would come to mild. “We had a pact from the start, he had his life, I had mine. We knew that there might be nothing else, ”she says in one of many fragments of the interview that Paloma Simón conducts along with her, superior by the journal.
King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía, in a file pictureGetty Images
The totanera just isn’t clear that the emeritus felt the identical for her. “I feel he was very keen on me at one level. If he needed me or not… I feel that in a giant season, sure. But in fact, I knew that he couldn’t aspire to the rest ”.
Bárbara Rey assures that their affair started in 1975 and ended when she married Ángel Cristo in 1980, just a few months after they met. “being married [el rey] He phoned me many occasions. In a pleasant approach, huh?… But personally I did not see him once more, ”she says within the interview within the quantity that goes on sale on January 20.
Barbara Rey, in 1974Getty Images
The relationship ended as a result of “Don Juan Carlos met one other individual”
When she separated from the tamer and father of her two youngsters (Sofía and Ángel) in 1990, the story with Juan Carlos I resumed however ended 4 years later. According to her, as a result of “Don Juan Carlos met one other individual.”
According to the journalist Pilar Eyre, this “individual” was Marta Gayá, one other of the king’s alleged lovers. Felipe VI’s father had “different shut associates”, however “every thing went unsuitable ceaselessly when Marta Gayá appeared, whom Juan Carlos referred to as “my girlfriend”, the journalist recounted in her Lecturas column a 12 months in the past. “Bárbara knew that there have been different ladies, however the Mallorcan was the one which harm him probably the most”.
Who is Marta Gayá?
The interview additionally addresses the alleged recordings of intimate movies that she product of King Juan Carlos -who later denounced that they have been stolen-, and if she obtained public cash in change for her silence, one thing that she categorically “denies” and admits having been “extra afraid” than she truly “went by means of”.
Atrocities have been mentioned, comparable to that they’ve given me 600 million from the general public coffers
“They don’t cease mendacity and saying atrocities, like they’ve given me 600 million from the general public coffers,” he says about what has been printed to this point: 25 million pesetas from his contract with TVE, and one other 600 that he would have collected for 10 years, with cash from the CNI, based on the key file of the previous director of CESID for 14 years and adviser to the king, Emilio A Manglano, collected within the ebook El jefe de los espias.
“I’ve had numerous issues, in charge a lot of individuals and folks that you simply can’t think about. As I’ve lived on public cash, please! That is tremendously robust! How can I not do it to disclaim! It’s that it is a lie! Now, if I’ve labored on a public TV, and so they have paid me with cash, logically the cash might be public, “he argues.
Barbara ReyVanity Fair
I beloved him very a lot and I nonetheless have affection for him, I’ve at all times mentioned that he ought to be in Spain
“I’ve by no means mentioned that it was true, wherever. There are people who find themselves appreciated and cared for, what I are not looking for is to harm them or benefit from them in troublesome moments… I beloved him very a lot and I’ve at all times felt affection. What’s extra: I’ve at all times mentioned that I ought to be in Spain”, he says concerning the two years of “exile” that King Juan Carlos I has been in Abu Dhabi because of his monetary scandals in Spain.
King Juan Carlos Europa Press
How did Barbara and King Juan Carlos meet?
When Bárbara Rey met the king, he was 38 years outdated (13 years older than her). According to Pilar Eyre, it was the previous Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez who launched them. “Sir, I current to you a buddy, Bárbara Rey. She is from Totana and an actress, however she has loads of class ”.
Adolfo Suárez with King Juan Carlos I (1979)Getty Images
The star now remembers that the king “was very engaging, he was very nicely. I might sing that track by Julio Iglesias: ‘I’ve taken one of the best of your life’”.