Rafael Amaya during the promotion of El señor de los cielos Season 8 in Mexico City (Photo: Jaime Nogales/Medios y Media/Getty Images)
It was three years before Rafael Amaya returned as the fearsome “Aurelio Casillas”.a time when he was not only far from the character that catapulted him internationally, but had to be Coping with his own nightmare of a serious addiction problem.
‘Aurelio Casillas’ fell into a coma in late 2019 in the narcoserie El Señor de los Cielos. The decision to abandon the main character came as a surprise to many, but not to Rafael Amaya, the actor was honest with the production and accepted that he was unable to produce his or someone else’s due to excessive use of drugs and alcohol obligation to fulfill, and would voluntarily undergo a rehabilitation program.
The dark days seem to be behind us and now the actor shows himself with a new look, yes for the return in the controversial Telemundo series, but also because a new light, that of love, illuminates this new phase of life.
People en Español was the last to reveal that Amaya is in a “new” sentimental relationship (Carmen Aub, “Rutila” on the series, was the first to talk about her partner in love). The Post claimed so The couple have been together for two years. “Rafa fell in love with her some time after they started working together,” a close friend told the magazine.
The woman in question is Maritza Ramos, a Mexican woman and the actor’s manager. They met just in the days when the interpreter was going through his darkest period.
The news soon went viral and coincided with the promotion of the show’s eighth season. Some have taken the opportunity to take videos and photos of all the women who approached Rafa, hoping that one of them is Maritza and have exclusive pictures of them.
It was he who decided to confirm what was published by People. “I’m a person who usually has media relations and in this case they asked me, ‘Do you have a girlfriend?’ Yes, I have a girlfriend and I’m very happy, my heart is very happy.”.
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There’s little that matters about her right now. “A wonderful woman who accompanied me in this process from good to bad was my accomplice in all respects,” he says. And if he has decided to make the advertising public, he says that reflects the friendly treatment of the press. “Why not share the most beautiful thing I have, which is this affection, this relationship?”
He also emphasizes that now is the time to speak about his present, which is important to him, even if that past, “a dark, eerie side that I don’t want to go back to,” is always latent. “To be in the light you have to be in the dark, I’m in the light, I have a lot of work, a lot of health, a lot of luck and I feel very lucky,” he adds.