Máximo Valverde, with whom Amparo Muñoz shared three years of relationship, remembers for us how he lived that love story. The ill-fated Miss Universe also loved Patxio Andion and José Coronado.
This June 20, Amparo Munoz would have turned 69 years old. She left us on February 27, 2011, prematurely, after a life of pain and glory, of roses, like the ones she received from her for her Miss Universe title that caused her so much disappointment, and many thorns. Ephemeral movie star, especially during the time when she was romantically linked to Elias Querejeta, men passed through her life who left traces of a different nature on her: Patria Andión, Flavio Labarca, the aforementioned Elias Querejeta, Maximo Valverde, José Coronado, a Transition politician whose name was not released, and a short-lived second husband, Victor Rubio.
In the countless articles that have been written about them, much emphasis has been placed on the shadows of her life, on her addictions that she had overcome in her final stage, on urban legends, and on very harmful rumors (such as that she was sick with AIDS). , and his years of ostracism, in which the film industry turned its back on him, but... How did love treat him? Well, not always well...
We get in touch with Máximo Valverde, one of Amparo Muñoz's first loves, and also one of the most important. These are the words of the interpreter of a girl almost decent and Spanish in Paris, very illuminating the subsequent life journey of the actress, whom she met through sheer perseverance.
How was the love between Maximo Valverde and Amparo Munoz
"We were together for about three years. I met her when she came out Miss Spain. I saw her on the covers of magazines and I loved her. I did everything possible to meet her. She lived in Malaga, but she came to live with some of her uncles in Vallecas. Through a journalist friend of mine, Augstín Trialasos, I got her phone number. I had dated several misses before and she had been told to be very careful with me, but she was a Gemini. She had a split personality. On the one hand, she was a very good person, but on the other, she had a lot of character and it was enough that you ask her for one thing for her to do the opposite », says Máximo Valverde.
When I called, she took the phone from her. She made me promise that if we met she wouldn't find out. That same day we met in a cafeteria in Plaza Benavente, I invited her to dinner and a tremendous crush arose. At that time he was dating Pantoja and she had a boyfriend in Malaga, Carlos. We both broke off our relationships and became boyfriends. She is the woman I have loved the most in my life. She was the one who made me the happiest and the one who made me suffer the most. Because of the breakup and the consequences she had. She was very painful because she was getting into a mire that I did not accept and because I scolded her, I became her enemy instead of her boyfriend. Our relationship then became hell, “adds the ex of Amparo Muñoz.
She shot a movie with Patxi Andión and that's where our relationship ended. The end of her was so sad of her, I saw it coming because she was getting into some environments that I did not like at all. From so many fights that she hit her, she ended up catching me. She was her enemy. I had to decide between getting into the mire of her with her or breaking up with her. It was tremendous. So much so that I went to a fishing neighborhood in Malaga for six months, I lived in a sailors' house because I didn't want to know anything about anyone, but everything is overcome", says Máximo Valverde, who filmed with Amparo Muñoz under the orders of Vicente Aranda the film Clara is the price.
Amparo took out two memoir books. I only read the first one and in it, she spoke terribly about all the men who had gone through her life, except me, she said that she had tried to help her. It was very nice that she did it, concludes the actor.
Patxi Andion, a tormented love that did not end well and was doomed to failure from the beginning
After the ordeal that caused her the Miss Universe crown and after breaking up with Máximo Valverde, Amparo Muñoz found a very passionate and tormented love in the figure of Patxi Andión, with whom she shot the film The Other Bedroom by Eloy de la Iglesia. A story with torrid scenes with high s- content and a shoot in which sparks flew, as the director himself, the greatest exponent of the so-called quinquina cinema, discovered immediately.
The actress and the singer-songwriter, of strong political convictions and militant of the FRAP, an extreme left armed group, were married on May 16, 1976, in the hermitage of Nuestra Señora de Andión in Navarra, three months after they met, which evidenced the rash decision and did not presage a favorable evolution for Amparo Muñoz and Patxi Andion. Three months after her wedding, the protagonist of Familia by Fernando León de Aranoa, a film that would relaunch her career in 1996, became pregnant, but she miscarried.
Their relationship lasted only a year and a half. In an interview in El Mundo Magazine, Amparo Muñoz spoke harshly about her ex-husband: "At that time contracts were raining down on me, but it began to create tremendous insecurity in me because he told me I was a bad actress. She clipped my wings. In the middle of that turbulent relationship, I got pregnant and had a miscarriage. I think my body broke down and rejected the creature."
Elías Querejata, his Pygmalion, and a great friend who fought for him to get out of drugs
Another key figure in the life of Amparo Muñoz was the producer Elías Querejeta, to whom she was united between 1977 and 1979. The film producer did everything possible over the years, since they remained friends, for her to leave the drugs. We are talking about a relationship that some have compared to George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, which they kept away from the media and which broke up when she fell in love with the Mexican Tomas Farkas, whom she met on the set of El Gambler. In the middle of that relationship, she had an affair with a pilot from whom she became pregnant and she decided to have an abortion, even though the actor was willing to take care of the child.
After these sentimental turbulences would come the most unfortunate relationship for her, together with the Chilean antique dealer Flavio Labarca, whom she married in Bali in 1983. A wedding that had no legal validity for a marriage that lasted barely a year. He started me, but one gets into drugs because he wants to. I started fooling around out of ignorance, out of lack of information. I had many personal and professional disappointments. I had a bad time and I clung to that, "said Amparo Muñoz in the same interview.
Then came an ephemeral courtship with Antonio Flores, who was blessed by his mother, Lola Flores, because, according to chroniclers of the time, she believed that it would separate him from the world of drugs in which the then girlfriend of the author of Let's put was heavily involved. I'm talking about Madrid. What La Faraona did not know, with whom Amparo Muñoz would shoot the film Los Invitados three years later, was that the former Miss Universe was having the same problems as her son. Only the graphic testimonies published by Semana magazine and the words of those who surrounded them at the time, many of them victims of the excesses of the Madrid Movida, remain of that relationship.
A brief passionate love story with José Coronado
Shortly after that film, Amparo Muñoz shot the TVE series Brigada Central, in which she shared the cast with a very young José Coronado, with an emerging career and quite a discovery. They were attributed to a sentimental relationship, at a time when the actress's life was on the razor's edge, and years later she would confirm it in her book Life is the Price (2005).
Her third marriage (and second legally valid) was with Víctor Rubio, a person far from show business, with whom she was between 1991 and 1994. "I only wanted a good man, like my father, or like Antonio Flores," she stated. subsequently. Her death resulted in a deformation in the brain, when she, according to her environment, she was fully recovered from her addictions.
