“I was an idiot”: Xuxa recalls the great love story she lived with Ayrton Senna and 29 years after the pilot’s death, she discovers who the woman who separated them was

Almost three decades have passed since the death of the pilot Ayrton Senna da Silva29 years to be exact, and his memory is still latent in the memory of presenter Xuxa Meneghel, better known as the “Queen of Shorts”.

The 60-year-old actress and singer also had an affair with the Brazilian driver several years before his tragic death on May 1, 1994 after he lost control of his car during the San Marino Grand Prix in Italy.

At that time, Ayrton Senna was already dating Adriane Galisteu because the relationship with Xux did not progress, despite the fact that the couple excited the public and the press with their joint appearances, and after the pilot’s death, the presenter was considered his widow.

The courtship broke off in 1990 and although distance and work commitments were both believed to be the reason for the split, Xuxa Meneghel discovered the truth and revealed the name of the woman who stood between the two.

The queen of children’s programs opened her soul in the podcast “Quem Pode, Pod”, by Fernanda Paes Lema and Giovanna Ewbank, which was broadcast on YouTube on July 11, and there she spoke about the love story that marked her life, after the traumatic relationship she had with Pelé , but which suffered the final blow with the death of Ayrton Senna.

“We were together for two years, and after we broke up, we still saw each other, dated and everything. But after he started dating Adriane Galisteu, he was very faithful. And then the fatality came,” is one of the excerpts from Xuxa’s statement, which was verified by CNN Brazil.

In the midst of her confessions, she admitted that she did not value the relationship even though she was in love with him, but she also attributed the breakup with the Williams pilot to Marlene Mattos, a business woman and manager of Xux, with whom she finally broke up. relationship 2002

“She told me: ‘You have to choose between profession or love. Because if he goes through that door, I go out the other’. And then you know what my choice was, I was an idiot. I imagined that I would find him later, that he would no longer be with Marlene and that we would be together. But it couldn’t. I’ll take what I have today,” he says.

When the couple split, they were both at the peak of their careers. She was a well-known presenter who, in addition to all the presentations and shows that filled her schedule, was focused on the television program she recorded from Monday to Saturday.

He was already considered the fastest Formula 1 driver, so much so that he won as many as three world championship titles, Argentinian media Infobae recalls, where they refer to other statements of the presenter in “Xuxa, o Documentário”, the bioseries model that premiered on August 13 on the Globoplay streaming platform.

There, he recalled that his first date with the pilot lasted 10 hours and that he felt a connection from that meeting. However, he admitted that “just as he wanted someone to accompany him to the grand prix, I wanted someone to accompany me on my duties”.

Argentinian media also reminds of Ayrton Senna’s statement from August 1990, a few months after the split.

“The big problem is that Xuxa is delirious about her profession and has simply locked herself into her own world. I think I was one of the few who could get into it. She doesn’t have time to think about family and having children,” said the pilot at the time, who later admitted that he wanted to start a family with her, even though they wanted different things.

“I can say that for once in my life I felt the desire to have a new family here. Only once in my life did I dream of having a child. It was with her. With Xux,” he admitted. (AND)

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