Dani Alves’ model wife confirms split on Instagram
Dani Alves’ model wife has appeared to confirm her split with the imprisoned footballer with a heart-wrenching letter.
Joana Sanz published the handwritten letter on social media on Wednesday, 48 hours after it emerged she had visited the Brazilian international in jail for a second time since his arrest over sex assault allegations nearly two months ago.
The 29-year-old saw Alves, on February 5 in her first visit since he was remanded to Brians 2 Prison near Barcelona shortly after a Spanish TV journalist claimed she had asked him for a divorce.
Sanz, 29, rubbished some of the claims made by Telecinco TV reporter Leticia Requejo in Instagram posts at the time but stayed silent on the divorce issue.
On Wednesday she left her social media followers in no doubt she was planning to call time on her relationship with Alves with her two-page diary-style letter.
She headed the letter, written in her native Spanish ‘in my own handwriting’ said: ‘I would love for the lines written here to be about love and happiness, but it is not the case.
‘These have been horrible months, not the hardest of my life, because I have faced many storms, but very dark and painful.
‘The feeling of abandonment and loneliness knocks on my door again. Thousands of “why’s” with no answer. I chose as a life partner a person who in my eyes was perfect.
‘He was always there when I needed him the most, he always supported me in everything, he always pushed me to grow, always affectionate, attentive… It’s so hard for me to accept that this person could break me into a thousand pieces.
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‘I think it’s going to take me years to erase from my memory his way of looking at me, that way he had of looking at me as if I were the most incredible thing in the world and damn, yes, I’m incredible.’
She went on: ‘I am incredible because I am hardworking, independent, intelligent, thoughtful, affectionate, funny, faithful and humane, and so human that despite the damage he has caused me, I am still here by his side.
‘I continue and will continue to be, but in another way.
‘I love him and I will always love him. Whoever says you forget love is either deceiving themselves or did not truly love. But I love myself, I respect myself and I value myself much more.
‘Forgiving alleviates, so I keep the magic and close a stage of my life that began on 18/5/15. I give thanks for the opportunities and learning that life gives me, no matter how difficult they are. Here is a strong woman moving on to the next stage of her life.’