Carmen Maura is a Spanish actress known for her long professional career. We have seen her on the big screen since she was 24 years old and she will soon release a new movie titled 'The Other Jon'.
Maura has been an actress that we have seen in many films, comedies, dramas... in fact, she herself recognized tonight in El Hormiguero the variety of her characters. “I have been the baddest, I have played the funny one, the stupid one…” But her personal life has been much harder than any of her characters can reflect.
One of the episodes that have tormented the actress the most, and continue to do so, were those more than 10 years in which she was separated from her children. Carmen Maura married Francisco Forteza Pujol in 1974 and had two children together. But, when the couple decided to divorce, one of the judges decided that full custody should go to the businessman.
After that devastating news, he decided to move to the Canary Islands, where he lived for 12 years. A decision that separated Maura from his children for all that time. As she herself stated on the 'Chic' portal, her ex-husband had a close relationship with people in the judicial field, something that could have affected the judge's decision that her children stay with her father.
At that time the judge considered that Pablo and Carmen should stay with Francisco Forteza because of the actress' job. It was alleged that his busy work schedule could not be combined with raising his children, which is why the businessman obtained custody. A decision that Maura has never agreed with, although she has very rarely spoken publicly about it.
Although her first husband took her children from her, her second, Antonio Moreno Rubio, only left her debts. “She left me with two and a half million euros of debt, with my houses repossessed, my field repossessed…” After a situation like that, the actress has revealed that “at that moment she gave me a break, and, after a month, I got my act together.”
After two love disappointments that left her in very complicated moments in her life, Carmen Maura has not hesitated to reflect on love. In fact, the last time she was in El Hormiguero she told Pablo Motos how she felt being alone for the first time: “When I broke up I spent a week saying 'How strange to be alone' and now I've gotten addicted.”
