It has been a difficult few months for model Joana Sanz (Tenerife, 29 years old) after first her mother died and her husband, footballer Dani Alves, who was accused of raping a young woman, was arrested and taken to temporary prison in a nightclub Sutton from Barcelona. Much has been said about the situation Sanz found himself in and the position he took in the Brazilian’s defence. Tired of having to go out and deny rumors, she has now taken a step forward and it was her, via Instagram and with a handwritten letter, clarifying the situation she is in and announcing the divorce from the , who has been her partner for eight years.
In February, the Tenerife woman showed her support for the 39-year-old athlete, demanding privacy given his situation and confirming both on her social networks and in front of the cameras that she will not part with Alves and that she is in the “worst moment” of his life would not “let down”. “I know who my husband is. I know how respectful that is,” he even said on a TV show. “I’ve often seen women come to the booth, daring to try something on my husband and on my face. If they do it in my presence, I don’t want to imagine doing it when I’m not there.” Instead, he changed his stance a few weeks later. “Ever since I was little I’ve been writing down my feelings to express myself, probably because I’m an only child. Whatever it is, I’m fine,” Sanz wrote in the opening lines of the letter, which he shared on Instagram and which garnered nearly 20,000 likes in just two hours.
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“It’s been a terrible few months, not the hardest of my life because I’ve experienced many storms, but very dark and painful ones,” he continues. “I have chosen a person as my life partner who, in my eyes, is perfect. He was always there when I needed him the most, he always supported me in everything, he always encouraged me to grow, always loving, attentive… It’s so hard for me to accept that this person breaks me into a thousand pieces could.” , explains the model. Her husband was arrested on January 20 while returning to Spain for his mother-in-law’s funeral. One way, but no turning back. He was immediately tried and imprisoned in Brians 2 prison in Barcelona.
Last weekend, Sanz visited Alves in prison after not seeing each other for a month and a half. She left the place in earnest and without wanting to make any statements to the press that awaited her on her way out of the Catalan prison: “It will take me years of my life to get the way you look at me from my memory, that’s what it is like I’m the most incredible thing in the world and fuck yeah I’m awesome. […] So human that despite the damage he caused me, I’m still here by his side. I’m going on and I’ll be further, but in a different way.” In doing so, the model has confirmed her break with the footballer, adding: “I love him and will always love him, whoever says love is forgotten, he is mistaken or did not really love. But I love myself, I respect myself and I value myself very much.
With this letter, Sanz closes a chapter that, as she herself writes, “began on May 18, 2015”. The couple would secretly wed a year later, in April 2016, in an intimate ceremony in Paris. The months of silence ended with a clear message: “Here is a strong woman entering the next phase of her life.” The couple have no children, although Alves has two others, Daniel and Victoria (ages 16 and 15), the result of his first marriage in 2008 to longtime girlfriend Dana Dinorah Santana, whom he divorced in 2011, with whom he remains maintain a cordial relationship.
Alves is currently in custody awaiting trial. The investigation into the cause is well advanced and all procedures have been carried out. The different versions he presented to the ex-footballer before the judge and the victim’s firm stance, who at no point hesitated about what happened, do not help his defense. The one who was a Pumas de México player until his arrest (who immediately canceled his contract) initially denied knowing the 23-year-old girl and later defended that she gave him a consensual fellatio. However, biological evidence such as sperm found in the woman’s genital area, which matches Alves’ DNA, lends even more veracity to the victim’s story.