If anyone’s life has taken a radical turn in just two weeks, it is that of cardiologist Carmen Otte. The young woman from Cadiz has gone from being just another woman to becoming the Spaniard most sought after by the media after being planted at the altar by her fiancé, the bullfighter Juan Ortega, after almost a decade of relationship.
A last-minute sit-in about which there has been a lot of speculation, especially because of the motivations that the right-hander would have had for acting like this in front of his partner and the more than 500 guests who came to Jerez de la Frontera that day. However, this whole story seemed to have another key protagonist: Carmen’s father, Ortega’s future father-in-law and who would have had a tense discussion with the bullfighter, which would be decisive, before the match.
Two weeks have passed, and although it seems that the bullfighter has managed to regain contact with Carmen, she continues to take refuge with her family in Jerez. It was her father, Miguel Ángel Otte, who was seen for the first time in front of the cameras after Ortega’s sit-in with his daughter. The man tried to flee from the reporters, but he did see fit to clarify his role as “responsible” for Juan Ortega’s change of heart.
“Everything is very painful and we are not going to talk. Everything that is being told is a lie,” he said, visibly nervous, while trying to escape from the reporters through the streets of the center of Jerez. “We have nothing more to say. Leave us alone.”
An attitude that corresponds to the words of the Otte family, who during all these days have only tried to resume their routines after becoming the talk of all of Jerez de la Frontera. They threatened at the time with the possibility of suing the bullfighter, but luckily Juan Ortega took responsibility for the situation and covered all the expenses of the failed wedding.
However, Miguel Ángel Otte’s role seems to go further. The famous argument that everyone is referring to allegedly took place last November, when Otte reproached the right-hander for taking so long to ask his daughter to marry him. A clash between the two men that would have radically changed Juan Ortega’s way of seeing things from that moment on.
“You won’t love our daughter so much when it took you so long to ask her to marry him,” Otte allegedly snapped, referring to the couple’s seven years of relationship and three years of living together. “But how? If in the end you have gotten what you wanted…”, Juan Ortega would have responded, adding: “You have gotten us to get married when you wanted and how you wanted.”
A conversation leaked to the media that neither party would have liked. According to a source close to Miguel Ángel Otte, everything would be a “lie.” “He is putting this matter in the hands of whoever has to put it,” said source said through Así es la vida.
The family thus shows its discontent with this entire situation, wanting to completely distance itself from the media spotlight and the commotion that Juan Ortega’s decision has generated.