Ana Duato, after years of keeping silent about her problems with the Treasury, has broken her silence in an intimate interview for vanity in which he opens the doors of his house and denounces the harassment that he has been suffering for a long time. According to her, at no time was the presumption of innocence respected, she considers that she has been “treated unfairly” and the matter has also had serious consequences for her entire family. “emphatically not”, he blurts out forcefully when asked if he is allegedly guilty of evade taxes in seven years and for which the Prosecutor’s Office asks for 32 years in prison.
For 24 hours, the actress attends to the journalists of the aforementioned medium in the privacy of her home and does not hide the innumerable feelings that the entire judicial process whose official investigation has just ended has caused her. “I felt disbelief. I could’nt believe it. There was a before and after in our life. When this process begins, you don’t give credit, especially at first you don’t understand what is happening because you have always been sure that he is doing things right. Suddenly this falls on you and not only at the family level, but publicly and socially it changes your life radically. There is a before and after. An Ana before everything and after. I have always paid everything to the Treasury in a timely manner. Always ”, Duato assures before insisting on the defenselessness that he has felt during all this time.
“the bullying was brutal. Live programs were made from the door of our house. Not only do you feel singled out, but you see how it affects your whole family… It’s an explosion, a grenade that enters your house. He always made the joke that if we had lived in the time of the Inquisition, they would have burned me directly in the square. It touches the depths of your honor, how you have wanted to do things well in your life and you cannot explain yourself or defend yourself. Tea you feel very helpless. I went from being a loved woman to being a hated woman”, laments Ana in vanity.
How could it be otherwise, Duato has been afraid of ending up in prison: “How can you not be afraid when they ask you for 32 years in prison and you find yourself in a situation where you feel so defenseless and you can’t defend yourself? (…) Everything is paid. I stop believing in the world if they put me in jail, ”she reflects. According to her, an expert miscounted 80 episodes of Tell me how it happened that she had not carried out and accuses the Tax Agency of lack of rigor for not comparing the data with Radio Televisión Española that are audited.
The serious consequences also for his family
At the time the case broke out for alleged tax evasion, Ana Duato’s children, Miguel and María, were 20 and 11 years old respectively and were two of those who suffered the most: “My children were younger, especially Maria. She suffered a lot. You don’t understand that from one day to the next your mother goes from being a beloved woman to a villainous woman. It has been a great lesson in my life because it was very painful and also had many consequences, ”she reveals. “Miguel was already older, but María was told at her school ‘your mother is a thief’. I had to change her school because she was singled out,” she added.
