• Solidaria.Sofia Cristo helps drug addicts on YouTube

"It has been 10 years since he left, but every day he accompanies me and I feel close to him, he protects me and he takes care of me. I am sure that he is the one who helps me to gather strength so that I can accomplish everything that he did not achieve, which is staying abstinent and helping people with addiction problems. He, now, never abandons me. I would like to say: 'I love you, dad!' "assures LOC Sofia, the DJ daughter of Barbara Rey and Angel Cristo , of whose death this Monday, May 4, is ten years old . He could not say goodbye to his father, because he died suddenly of a cardiac arrest in the Madrid hospital in Leganés. The famous tamer, 65, felt bad when he was traveling by car from Jaén, where some friends picked him up lying in the reception of a hotel where he slept, because he could not pay for the room. He came to Madrid ready to reappear in the circus, his passion. However, the physical deterioration produced by his addiction to the drug , together with the numerous attacks of wild beasts that he suffered, had so undermined his body that he could hardly walk.

VIRIL PELAMBRERA

Gone are those days of glory where, poking out his manly fur by the neckline of his fantasy costumes, he put his heart in a fist to the spectators facing lions and tigers inside his cage . His courage knew no bounds as he demonstrated in 1965 in Bilbao, when the lion King injured him in the arm , and bleeding profusely, he continued his performance. More attacks followed, the most serious in 1990 in Lerida, when two lions and a tiger rushed him, fracturing six ribs and smashing his body with claws.

A courage with the wild beasts that he lacked to bear the claw of love, since his marriage to Barbara Rey, sexy icon of the transition, marked his existence with blood and fire. When on January 12, 1980, he married Barbara in Valencia, under a circus tent, many were surprised, despite the fact that the tamer also owned the Russian circus, the best in Europe, with more than 300 employees. The Murcian environment attributed this unusual union to the fact that Christ, deeply in love, took her very seriously, and offered her a home, even if it was a circus caravan, and children.After her wedding, Barbara left the bussiness show to give herself to her husband and the circus, where she debuted as an elephant tamer . In August 1981 their first son, Ángel, was born and two years later, in 1983, Sofía, becoming the couple of the moment, they even had a television program together El circo de Barbara Rey and Angel Cristo. But soon the first disagreements arose , which resulted in episodes of violence and flirting with the cocaine of the tamer, who came to break into a game room with a gun threatening his wife . As revealed by his friend, Manuel Carreño: "He never believed that he had achieved a woman as spectacular as Barbara, and he became very jealous. His addition to the drug began when she decided to return to the stage and he was left alone, eaten away For jealousy".

VIOLENT SEPARATION

In 1988, her violent separation took place, he denounced her for abandonment of her home and she denounced him for ill-treatment, which coincided with the ruin of Christ, who had his circus seized, which he had to close. It was the beginning of a decadence that turned him into a broken toy as evidenced in his pathetic television interventions, where he obsessively attacked his ex-wife, even airing his alleged affair with King Juan Carlos. When in 1997 the vedette reported a robbery at her home of photos, videos and compromising tapes "for a very important person in the country" and pointed out Manolo Prado, intimate of the monarch , as the person responsible for Christ, he stirred the shadow of blackmail in Martian Chronicles . "If that lady has been able to blackmail one of the most important men in this country, how can she not destroy a poor circus man like me?" He also said that Barbara did not bite her tongue and when her daughter revealed her addiction to cocaine on television, now overcome, her mother revealed that Christ provided drugs to protect her, for being of better quality than the one she bought.

Ángel Cristo's funeral, 10 years ago.

Despite this war, the actress was very affected by his death and paid for the costs of his funeral. As he recognized. "" He was the man who loved me the most and also the one who hurt me the most. "

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