After announcing [in our program] two months ago that Gabriela Spanic and Miguel de
León were in the process of a divorce, the actor agreed to talk to us for the
first time about their separation.
"As of this moment, we've already made plans to arrange our
separation legally. In Venezuela it's customary --because that's where we
were married-- to first sign the separation papers and then a year later when the
divorce papers come out, to sign those as well. That's pretty much what the
process will be like."
Is everything community property?
Everything is community property.
How are you arranging that concern? Are you...
No one filed for a divorce. The demand for a divorce doesn't exist.
[What we have] is a mutually agreed upon accord. Everything's been taken
care of.
And this, of course, has facilitated everything.
Yes, because neither of us at any moment, as I was telling you, challenged the other.
We never confronted one another. We simply made the decision [to go
our own separate ways] and, well, everything was divided in the most equitable way
that it could be. In a manner to her liking and to mine as well.
De León and Spanic were a couple for seven years: two years as a steady
couple [exclusively dating each other] and five years as a married couple.
Three months ago, they formalized their separation. But for
approximately one year before that, Miguel de León and Gabriela Spanic had
been thinking about going their separate ways.
"We've tried to face it head on. We've analyzed it a
lot. This is something we've been considering for quite some time. It's
not a decision we made at the spur of the moment. We've been thinking
about it for maybe a year now... and well, time will tell. We've
got to, as they say in my country, 'move onward' ".
The actor refused to go into detail about what led them to say a definite "adios" to
each another.
"The reasons are something that concern only her and me.
It's a decision we reached jointly. It's perhaps the best thing for
us... for both of us. Talking about what ended, about what was lost, about
what was absent, about what was beyond repair... is something that, I repeat,
concerns only her and me. It doesn't belong to the public domain. It
would require a lot of explaining... and we [prefer to] reserve those reasons to
ourselves. There were no disagreements... we're in good terms...
everything is a-okay... we're friends. That is something people
should know, right?"
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