Joana Sanz is going through one of the most complicated moments of her life. Her husband, former footballer Dani Alves, was sentenced last week by the Barcelona Court to four and a half years in prison for raping a young woman in a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022. A situation that made the model the protagonist involuntary exposure to the media spotlight, which he has had to deal with ever since.

To that blow in his love life was added another setback on a personal level, because shortly after his mother, the other pillar of his life, died. A 2023 that seems to have ended up taking its toll on the Canarian, as he has recognized in one of his latest Instagram posts, where he confesses to his followers that it is increasingly difficult to maintain “peace of mind” of the.

“Tenerife continues to be difficult for me,” the model begins by writing, stating that she has spent a few “very sad” days on the island “despite the fact that I have many people who love me there.” Her reason was to still feel the presence of her mother, who died from cancer at the beginning of 2023.

“It makes me sad not to be able to go have a snack with my mother or take her to the beach. I couldn’t hold back the tears when I immersed myself in the sea remembering her brown-green eyes or her laugh. It’s strange, but I had the feeling that the current of the sea hugged me,” she reveals, clearly moved.

The model confirms that she went to Barcelona after those days that were intended to be disconnection to see her pets, who still remain in the house where she lived with her husband, Dani Alves. However, this task also seemed difficult.

“I went through Barcelona to kiss my furry friends but the media greatly complicates my peace of mind,” denounces Joana Sanz, who claims that the reporters “corner her outside my house,” to the point that she broke her phone. The media harassment of her was such that she decided to go to Madrid, where months ago she established her new residence.

The Canarian is grateful that the capital gave her that “anonymity” and tranquility that she needed. “I was able to be a little happy in the midst of all the chaos,” she says, without forgetting to thank all the people who have been by her side at this very complicated moment in her life. “Thank you to the people who lift me up from the ground and remind me that there are not only tears of sadness.”

The model has had a very complicated 2023, having to face several moments that have completely changed her life. The entry into prison and the entire judicial process of her still husband, Dani Alves, for a crime of sexual assault – with all the media harassment and public scrutiny that this entailed – was added to the death of her mother, who she was tremendously close to.

A month after her death, the Canarian woman claimed that she did not know how to manage her loss. “I need your hug. I need your joy,” she wrote to her mother in a heartbreaking letter that she published on her Instagram account. “I feel alone, you know? You told me that wherever I was you were going to be with me, but I don’t feel you. Many people will love me and I appreciate that, but there is only one mother’s love.”

Regarding her still husband, the model made her intentions clear in her last interview. Despite the criticism and opinions of third parties, she is not going to pursue her divorce, at least for now. “We are the same, we are not going to get divorced at the moment. He is in the situation he is in and we will remain married for the moment. He told me to do what I wanted, he was not going to give me a divorce and then I said: well, that’s how we continue.” “I am still there for him and I will continue to be here forever, the future will tell.”