Overview

• In Yo, Bárbara, Rey details repeated physical and psychological abuse by her ex-husband Ángel Cristo, including rape and threats at gunpoint.
• She recounts a decades-long liaison with King Juan Carlos I, describing private calls, a 1977 campaign for UCD at his request, and recording him without his consent.
• The former vedette denies ever receiving the alleged 600 million pesetas from royal or government funds, questioning the whereabouts of any such payment.
• Rosa María Beneit, former secretary to Adolfo Suárez, has publicly branded Rey’s claim of an intimidating Moncloa meeting as a “calumny.”
• Sofía Cristo has publicly backed her mother’s disclosures, and Rey affirmed she received no warning from the Royal House before publishing.