The 73-year-old actress and vedette advised Risto Mejide how her relationship with the emeritus was
Bárbara Rey sat down yesterday with Risto Mejide in his program Viajando con Chester to inform in first individual what his story with King Juan Carlos I used to be like.
The very first thing he recounted was how they actually met, in 1977, a special story from the one printed thus far. It was not via Adolfo Suárez, of whom he doesn’t have a great reminiscence, however on the initiative of the monarch.
He labored loads, he referred to as me a number of instances earlier than assembly
Juan Carlos I requested for the phone variety of Bárbara Rey, who was then triumphing because the queen of breakout cinema on the time, and referred to as her personally at dwelling. “At first I assumed it was a joke. She advised me that she actually preferred my work. I didn’t agree to satisfy him at first, I had many doubts and was afraid to say no, that it could have an effect on my work”.
“He needed to work it out with many calls”, till Bárbara accepted a primary assembly with him, in Zarzuela. “It was a dialog as if we had been associates, as a result of we had already talked loads on the telephone. And that is the place it began.”
Barbara Rey tells how she met the king emeritus and the primary time they met: “He referred to as me”
“It is fake that I’ve by no means been to Zarzuela, I’ve been a number of instances,” says the 77-year-old former vedette, though their sentimental encounters befell in “an extraordinary place, with out nice luxuries, a non-public home,” she stated with out specifying which one, though It is known that it was in his, the spectacular villa situated in Boadilla del Monte that Bárbara Rey put up on the market in 2019 for 690,000 euros.
Bárbara Rey avoids answering whether or not or not she was in love with the king. “You cannot fall in love with an individual like that as a result of it is loads of struggling,” she says, conscious that the connection had no future, as she already recounted in her earlier interview for Vanity Fair. She admits that she was interested in him: “He was very good-looking, I met him when he started to be effectively, earlier than a little bit of a rustic face.”
Bárbara Rey confesses if she fell in love with Juan Carlos I
Her first stage with the king lasted three years, in what was an open relationship and she or he had different lovers, corresponding to “Paquirri and Rexach”.
Until she met her husband, Ángel Cristo. A wedding wherein she suffered significantly from the drug use of the circus tamer and her “insecure character”. “She mistreated me loads, in the future she shot me within the legs however did not hit me, the bullet hit the dresser,” she recounted about one of many hardest episodes on this relationship, from which her two kids had been born.
She assures that in her marriage to Christ she lower off her sentimental relationship with the king. “Ángel was very jealous, he did not even know that I had been with the king earlier than, solely my assistant and I knew. During that point, he solely as soon as referred to as me in a pleasant approach, to ask in regards to the household.
From his visits to Zarzuela, he remembers that in the future, when he was leaving, he noticed Prince Felipe. “He was a child, he should not have realized who I used to be.” He additionally recounts the few conferences that Queen Sofía had in official acts. “She was very well mannered, she requested me about my household, I do not know if as a result of she advised everybody the identical factor.”
Bárbara Rey acknowledges that she recorded the king, and that she was additionally recorded in conversations. She “she seen noises on the telephone, she advised him however she did not care. She has at all times believed that she was untouchable. I did not care as a result of I wasn’t doing something fallacious, it was due to him.”
The vedette denies that it was Suárez who launched her to the king and tells her true story with the then aspiring Prime Minister for UCD. “I by no means had something with him, I noticed him in the future and it was higher to not have seen him, the parable fell off me.”
He assures that it was the picture of UCD as a result of the king requested him for it as a private favor. But after that, she noticed how they stopped calling her to work. “I used to be doing nice and after collaborating with UCD every thing went to waste, it damage me, I requested for an viewers with Suárez however they advised me that nothing could possibly be finished, as a result of it was rumored that I had had one thing with the president, that he was their muse, however they had been fallacious in regards to the individual”.
Bárbara Rey recounts that she recorded the king “due to his dangerous habits in the direction of me” and “as a result of a buddy suggested me to. But I by no means used it. My tapes had been stolen and different persons are utilizing them, ”she says of a few of the conversations which have come out in different media, such because the HBO documentary Save the King.
Regarding the thousands and thousands of pesetas that they are saying he obtained for his silence, along with contracts with TVE, because it seems within the papers of Manglano, the previous director of CESID, Bárbara Rey acknowledges that he requested the king for assist. “If he used public cash, it is his drawback.” “I solely know that I began engaged on public tv, the cash I obtained was public. If one thing got here out of the funds, I do not know. Nothing got here on to me.”
The totanera actress later contradicts herself, when she affirms that the king “behaved very badly, they vetoed me professionally, I needed to take my kids ahead and he didn’t do the least.” “I do not know if the king vetoed me or his surroundings. I requested him for assist to unravel it. He advised me ‘if I had a magic wand…’. Later, he contradicts himself once more when he says that he by no means requested him for cash straight, however he did “let him know that I wanted it loads, however it did not assist, as if he heard it rain, even once I advised him that my sister was sick with most cancers, no helped me. I do not want her something dangerous, that she does very effectively, however her profession destroyed me. From being with a thousand shoots to having to make {a magazine} to proceed dwelling ”.
Risto Mejide requested Bárbara Rey in regards to the photographs that somebody took of them, wherein Juan Carlos I “touched her breast” and requested CESID for assist as a result of they’d be blackmailing him for them. “I used to be not paid for these photographs. They had been made by another person who has handed away. I can not say the title as a result of his household would sue me. It was the identical one which induced me to file conversations with the king.