Gloria Trevi shines in the hotel where she was staying a few days ago in Madrid to promote her latest and highly danceable album
We went crazy
.
A large entourage of collaborators jelly and assists her in rapture as we speak. Ramón Ríos, a highly sought-after celebrity makeup artist, tunes the airwaves; another assistant monitors the power of the light; a third, the framing of the camera. It's the same. Pretty, she's gorgeous, but when the diva —who spent five years in prison accused of child abuse before being acquitted and recognized as a victim herself of the mistreatment of her ex-partner— looks into her eyes, she can be seen as far as the kitchen. The hunger for life of the present and the fatigue of centuries of the past. The acidic humor on the surface and the bitter residue on the bottom. They are not incompatible. Not on her.
Do you like what you see in the mirror, bareback, in the morning?
It depends on the day, but I like it more than what I saw in my 20s.
I never imagined then to feel the way I feel now.
What do you have now that you didn't have then?
I didn't feel pretty.
That's why he made so many faces in the videos.
I did not like my legs, I felt that they were fat, perhaps because that was part of what they told me to make me feel that I was worthless.
But now I look at these legs that have taken me so many places and kept me standing and I feel proud.
When did you start to feel like you were in control of yourself?
Maybe when I came out of the storm, and it still took a while, because I felt indebted to my family.
I stayed home with my mom, after all that she had cried and fought for me.
Until I fell in love again.
Since then I have felt powerful, I feel that I am the owner of myself, and, even though I am married, every day he has to fight for my love, and I for his.
Why did you keep quiet until now?
It happens with abused people: they give their loyalty and compassion to people who do not deserve it.
When I got out of jail I did not go to explain to people what the justice had already said, that I was innocent.
I went out to work, because if I didn't I was never going to advance, I wasn't going to do songs or concerts.
It was a rebirth, a rise up.
Now that I am on top, now that I am big, rich, strong and powerful I can share this story because I believe there are people that I can do good to.
Why did you hold out for so long?
Many people ask me why I put up with it: I came to this guy when I was 17, as a girl, but then I became an adult, they say. No. Lie. You don't become a normal adult. They are years in which they are breaking you. I was stronger at 15 years old, I was a rebel and a feminist, I said that never ever in my life I was going to let a man mistreat me, that those who were left were stupid, until I bit the dust, I saw myself in that situation and I learned not to judge others. At 30 she was broken, nullified, and confused. They are breaking your bones little by little, separated from your family, feeling that the people that that guy had put around me were my family. People criticize silence, but that's how they teach us. I come from a school of nuns, from a conservative family, they are things that stay in your soul. He "hit you because I love you."
Did you get scared of men?
When I finished going through all that situation and I managed not to feel more for the person who had hurt me so much, I said that I would not fall in love again, that I was going to be a fucking daughter.
When I see a bastard who is very good, I'm going to say, you to bed and goodbye, I thought.
But then I saw Armando, who is now my husband, and he went from bed to the wedding.
Being bad went wrong.
The huntress, hunted
I hope that by next time I will be a good whore.
In another life she would be more bastard.
If I had a daughter, I would say to her: what a minimum of knowing seven men or more, because if you don't, you don't know sizes or shapes ...
Size Matters?
Of course, and how do you say it ?:
performing
.
I think that I, there, I was poor of experiences.
I wish I had more.
I see her very launched.
And of course, I like sex, I like to eat, I have not played all the games, I have not used drugs, but because I think I was born drugged.
With this mind, I would be scared to stay on the trip.
In his song 'They are me' he talks about the ages of women.
50 is an age ...
... bitch, very bitch.
What happens to us inside and what happens outside?
It happens to many men that they want to reinforce their youth and are looking for someone younger.
In women there is a very brutal transition moment.
Menopause hit me hard.
I said: I'm starting to die.
I had to work on my psychology, kick the plug, the connection, and everything goes super well again.
Besides, you are no longer going to have children, I already had them.
"Latin mature star says' menopause."
That is a great headline.
It is that, if at my age, I menstruate, it would not be a period, but cancer.
There are subjects in which we have to stop making taboos.
As girls we cry because it does not lower us, then because we stain and then because it stops us down.
Things have to be normalized, put on the balance.
That's OK.
Nature knows what it is doing.
Also, now we have medicine, which helps us, and we have to use it.
Also aesthetics?
Of course.
The aesthetic arsenal also helps.
I am not affected by things that are not reversible because I am very scared.
I believe that one day they will invent something that will rejuvenate all your cells, and then what do you do, if you already cut half your face.
What is resentment to you?
A waste of time
The duel?
You have to spend it, always.
The blame?
We must feel it because sometimes we hurt people unintentionally.
But guilt should not destroy you, it should serve to make you stronger and a better person.
What does prison sound like and smell like?
To impotence, to heartrending screams when a relative dies and you cannot go to bury him.
To tears.
To salt.
But also to solidarity.
What would you say to someone who is going through what you went through?
I would say to him: "You are very strong, just use your strength for the right thing: not to endure, but to be free."
GET UP AND SING
That is what Gloria Trevi (Mexico, 53 years old) says she did after being acquitted in 2004, after spending almost five years in jail in Brazil and Mexico accused of kidnapping and corruption of minors together with her then representative, Sergio Andrade .
Upon leaving, Trevi, the Mexican singer who has sold the most records in history, returned to the stage and only a couple of years ago decided to tell that she herself was a victim of mistreatment by Andrade.
Since then, the author of hymns such as 'Todos miran'.
Now, he presents the song 'We became crazy', a song and Amazon is preparing a 'bioserie' with his story.
"The people who accused me will also appear in it. They, in the end, were also victims," he says.
