Laura Zapata during the presentation of her book Pensamiento Ventana in 2021 (Photo: Adrián Monroy/Medios y Media/Getty Images).
Laura Zapata She’s such a good actressone of the most feared villains on television– that one day a domestic worker refused to work with her because she said that the actress had treated her employees badly, or at least that’s what she believed after seeing her in one of her legendary antagonistic soap operas, in which she spoke out against the misbehaving staff.
But behind the evil reputation she’s built up since the 1970s, Zapata sees herself as an energetic mother hen who’s also had the challenge of raising her children, Claudio and Patricio, on her own, which she’s proud of but doesn’t fulfill a wish she had had since she was a child: to start a family.
Yolanda Miranda’s daughter and Guillermo Zapata Pérez, his childhood was marked by the divorce of his parents, so he could never remember the two together. He was looking for an opportunity to be present in the life of the future actress. “Every Sunday he would pick me up and take me to Chapultepec,” he told Yordi Rosado.
His mother, on the other hand, later married Ernesto Sodi and from this relationship came his half-sisters, the archaeologist Federica Sodi, the painter Gabriela Sodi, the writer Ernestina Sodi and the singer Thalia. Then the little girl felt integrated into a family again.
But it was not like that. In this conversation with Rosado, the “Poor Girl Rich” actress confessed that she didn’t grow up around her sisters because their father, Ernesto Sodi, rejected them, and every time she visited them or their mother, she experienced moments of terror. “Because of the experiences, because of the energy, because of all the physical aggression, maybe without words. He was an alcoholic, a transgressor, he was very strong. He was someone I was afraid of, had to be afraid of.” “I’m hiding when he arrived,” she said.
Miranda then decided that Zapata would grow up with her grandmother, Eva Mange. “At that age you don’t even think about it anymore, my whole world as a child was great, games, fun, theatre, I lived with my grandmother and I was very happy with her, although my body was like split ‘My grandmother, but mine Thoughts were with my mother. ‘I have a mother, where is she?’, my little sisters, I adored her,” he once said to Gustavo Adolfo Infante.
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Years later, she met Juan Eduardo Sodi, who turned out to be her half-sister Thalía’s cousin. “I met him at a Pilar Pellicer dinner (…) and told him, ‘You’re going to marry me'”. The couple married nine months later and remained married for six years. “I regret the divorce, but there was no turning back,” he told Infante.
Rather, her regrets stemmed from her ideal of having something she was denied as a child: a family.
“I married the idea of being here forever and being a family of mom, dad and kids; It is one of the greatest pains of my life that I did not start a traditional family until my kids ran their course,” the producer also said on the Pelayito channel and in Mouth.
The longing lessened over the years because although he had two important relationships, neither gave way to Zapata’s new concerns, namely his children.
“One wanted to get married. My children and their children got along wonderfully. ‘We got married, we got married, but… you come over to my house,'” the actress told her, who had told her partner. But he didn’t like that state of affairs, and he brought up another possibility: that each would sell their respective house and start a new home where their children would feel accepted. However, he refused and Laura gave in, but on the condition that it was agreed before a notary that the future new home would be shared equally.
“I told him, ‘Let’s go to the notary and then we’ll mortgage 50% of the house in my name and 50% of your house in your name because I’m not going to let one of your children someday…’a the ones I do.” love, love and adore – turn around and say to my Claudio and my duck: “And why are you in my house?” and they feel bad. So I didn’t get married because he didn’t accept that,” he said.
Another reason that prevented him from realizing his dream was the idea of imposing a stepfather who looked down on his children, as was the case with Sodi.
“Mothers have to sacrifice themselves too, because you decide to have children, for what? You will take care of them, you will watch them grow, you will educate them, you will love them, you will.” You will make them genuine, love one another, that they respect one another; or you will bring them from one side, or you will tell them “your new uncle”. No what is that!”
Despite these opportunities and the fact that her children’s needs come first, Laura Zapata regrets not having that character: “I’ve always longed to have a family because I never had one.”