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Mar Flores Reveals Abuse and Alleged Child Abduction in Prime-Time Interview Promoting New Memoir

The appearance presents the book as a reckoning with Spain's past sexism.

Overview

  • Flores presented her memoir, Mar en calma, on El Hormiguero, using the platform to recount experiences she says were long kept private.
  • She said her then-husband, Carlo Costanzia, took their three-year-old from daycare and to Italy, leaving the child missing for weeks before a reunion aided by businessman Fernando Fernández Tapias and a tip from Alessandro Lequio.
  • She recounted arriving at a women's police station injured and feeling demeaned by officers, which she described as reflective of the era's attitudes.
  • Flores described sustained harassment by the celebrity press that led to an ICU admission and credited psychotherapy for her recovery.
  • She said she learned just before a TV taping that prosecutors were seeking nine years for her son, added that she discovered she would be a grandmother through a magazine, and denied any overlap between her relationship with Lequio and other commitments.