THE audios of Bárbara Rey which saw the light of day exclusively on OKDIARIO testify to how the relationship between the actress and the king of the time began Juan Carlos. In this one you hear the star remember that phone call that Juan Carlos I made to him – and which at first “seemed like a joke” – and then the monarch’s insistence: “Until he gets me, he won’t didn’t stop.” After that, a surprising revelation: Bárbara Rey and the head of state saw each other while the artist was married to the tamer and circus artist Ángel Cristo.
He king emeritus met the star on New Year’s Eve 1975 at a party where former president Adolfo Suarez He played the role of intermediary. But romance was born in 1977. “A lot has been said about his presentation, but no. It’s something I never talked about, but he was the one who located me, who called me. “I wasn’t there, I was working and he called my house,” he said in an interview with Four in 2023.
Barbara Rey.- It was him [Juan Carlos] who called me on the phone. That’s why he came to me. I was surprised and even treated him badly during the first two calls he made to me, because I thought they were playing a joke on me. And until he got me, he didn’t stop. I devoted more than 10 years of my life to the King: about four before my marriage and almost six, from 1989 to the end of 1994, since my separation. (…)
What is surprising about this audio is that it could contradict the actress’ version that she did not see Juan Carlos I during the nine years she was married to the tamer Ángel Cristo in the 80s .
Barbara Rey.- We have always maintained a telephone friendship and have seen each other on several occasions… on occasion when I was married.
“I didn’t believe it, obviously, I thought he was a comedian,” said the star. After that call, as she herself said in this audio, he insisted: “He called back and it was him. I don’t remember what he said to me. “He told me said that he followed me a lot, that he liked my work and that he followed everything that appeared in the press, that he liked me a lot and that he loved me a lot,” he said. declared.
“He was very handsome at that time, very attractive,” the actress said years later. The romance between the two men would last almost two decades with meetings organized in a house in Aravaca, a three-story house and a rented garage on Sextante Street, controlled by the National Intelligence Center (CNI), so that the two can happen separately.
“It was like we were friends. We had talked so much on the phone. He told me that I was very pretty and that he would like us to meet. “That’s when it all started,” he said. The relationship lasted for almost two decades until the actress threatened to release audio and videos of her meetings with the monarch if she did not pay him significant sums of money. This is where members of the CNI intervened to silence the star by paying millions of dollars into funds reserved between 1996 and 1997.
