This Sunday, just 3 days after the death of María Jiménez, La Sexta has honored her with a documentary in which she herself recounts her professional and personal career. Pioneer in raising her voice for equality, feminism and the fight against sexist abuse, María Jiménez was a victim of gender violence
In this first installment, the Sevillian artist narrated one of the most complicated episodes of her life, the mistreatment she received from her ex-husband, the actor Pepe Sancho, to whom she was married for 22 years.
In the first episode of the docuseries, the singer described her marriage to Sancho as "the biggest mistake of my life." An opinion shared by her music producer: "She clearly undermined her profession, she surrendered to submission. She paid for it in her artistic career, in her ability to sell records, because the character of a free and rebellious woman was no longer credible."
The artist claimed that she had never told everything about her relationship. Jiménez and Sancho met working, "the first day was a crush. The first time I saw him he was recording and I told him he was great, he blushed but told me that I did too. We met for dinner, we ended up in bed and the rest It was history,” said the singer.
From that day they did not see each other again, until they coincided in an act where she was promoting. "He showed up there, I asked him if he wanted to marry me and he said 'yes'. I told him, 'well, we'll talk later'. I fell in love with him like crazy, but he gave me a different image than the one I discovered later," she lamented. .
María recounted the first argument she had with Pepe Sancho and assured that "on the day of the wedding I almost broke up." The wedding took place in Triana, and according to her, "he became jealous of someone and the World Cup got mixed up. At night I told him that I was separating the next day and he started crying like a cupcake. I felt guilty. That's how the events went. 22 years that I was with him ”.
