If there are separations that become the talk of the gossip press for weeks, which ends up revealing even the most gruesome details, there are others that go much more unnoticed. Some are made public by their own protagonists when they have been separated for some time; Others come to light when those affected already lead separate lives. They are the silent separations. Without noise, without scandals and away from the spotlight.
Last weekend it was announced on a television program that the singer Chenoa had separated from her husband, the urologist Miguel Sánchez Encinas, just a year and a half after the wedding. It was later learned that the couple had no longer lived under the same roof for months. An amicable separation, they say. Neither the singer nor the doctor have spoken publicly.
Like many artists, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón has never liked to talk about her private life. It was recently learned that her two children, Teo, 22, and Bruna, 19, are trying their luck on stage as rap and hip-hop singers. They are the result of her relationship with the Argentine artist Guillermo Papin Luccadane, to whom Aitana has been close for more than 20 years.
Recently the artist, 55 years old, revealed that she has been separated from him for three years. “I am shedding my skin and I feel like I am a chrysalis in metamorphosis that has not yet finished making the complete transformation. I would like to have a little more inner peace,” the protagonist of The Boss confessed in an interview in El País.
In this conversation, the former president of the Film Academy did not explain the specific reasons for the separation, but she did imply that it was a consensual decision. “I have not yet completed the grief that a separation entails after 22 years of relationship, no matter how agreeable the breakup may have been. She thought that the duel was shorter and easier.”
Before her, Meryl Streep, 74, revealed, after collecting the Princess of Asturias award, that she has been divorced for six years from her husband, the sculptor Don Gummer, father of her four children, whom she married in 1978.
Around the same time, another long-standing marriage, that of Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness, announced their separate ways after 27 years together and two children. The ex-couple is handling her divorce in the strictest privacy. Some media suggest that this silence may be due to a million-dollar confidentiality agreement by which the actor would give his ex half of his fortune – plus 100 million euros – on the condition that he does not reveal anything related to his intimate life. in interviews, memoirs or similar formats.
Will and Jada Pinkett Smith also acknowledged less than a month ago that they had deceived everyone by pretending that they were still together when in reality they have been separated for seven years. The actors decided to keep the information about their breakup a secret because they were not ready to tell it. “We’re still trying to figure out, between the two of us, how to be partners,” Jada revealed on the Today show.
And for the discreet and quick divorce of tycoon Rupert Murdoch and former model Jerry Hall last year. After six years of marriage, they say that he put an end to it through an email. The procedures were quick and just two months later the divorce was final. The protagonists didn’t say a word.
