Ana Obregón (Madrid, 71 years old) surprised this Tuesday, November 3, with a media message published on her Instagram account in which she apologized to Antonia Dell'Atte (Ostuni, Italy, 61 years old) for accusing her in 2021 of having falsified a complaint of abuse against her ex-husband, Alessandro Lecquio. “I'm very sorry, Antonia,” he said at the end of the text, after acknowledging that he accused her without evidence.
That day, Dell'Atte's reaction was brief and through third parties, specifically the journalist Marta Riesco, who shared a message from the former model on the TEN program El Sótano: “He has left my executioner and abuser, Lecquio, bare ass.” But this Thursday, Dell'Atte used his Instagram profile, with more than 66,100 followers, to give an extensive response, although shortly after he decided to delete the publication. "The greatness of noble people is saving others. I, Ana Obregón, have saved you from a conviction and from going to jail," she began the forceful writing, which she accompanied with a photo of herself superimposed on images created with artificial intelligence in which an eagle with a crown holds a sign that says: "Truth and justice."
"Ana Obregón's mea culpa: she has finally woken up after 35 years of lies and media harassment about me. I accept your apology and your repentance, hoping that it is sincere. After 35 years, you have admitted that you have covered up and defended my abuser, Alessandro Lecquio," says the Italian. “I understand that 'to err is human, but to persevere is diabolical' and you have persevered for 35 years,” he insists in his post. "I hope it is the last time to give you this opportunity as I have done in the past and privately asking me to forgive you," he added in the message, which he also shared in his stories, followed by Isabel Valdés' article published this Thursday in EL PAÍS, titled Why does Ana Obregón's public apology to Antonia Dell'Atte matter (really)?
After the extensive statement in which she quotes, among others, Saint Matthew's Sermon on the Mount - "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied" -, the former model concludes with a postscript addressed to society in general: "False complaints do not exist... and the one I made in the distant 1991 of mistreatment is authentic... There is nothing more to add, your Honor!" On March 9, 1991, Dell'Atte filed a complaint against Lecquio at the Chamberí police station "for family abandonment and physical and mental abuse", which she finally ended up withdrawing: "I was afraid for my son, I was alone in Spain, many things," she told EL PAÍS about the reasons for that decision in an interview that ended up leading to the dismissal of her ex-partner from Mediaset, the network in which she collaborated for years. This interview not only marked the fall from grace of the talk show host, but also a milestone in the recognition of sexist violence in popular culture and the end of years of treating his story on television sets as scandals and filling grills, but never as a case of sexist violence.
Along with the new message, the former model has also published a carousel of photos in which she compares herself to an eagle. "There is a small bird that is not afraid to confront one of the great ones in the sky: the crow. With a mixture of daring and recklessness, it jumps on the eagle's back and begins to peck at its neck, seeking to provoke it and make it react. Any other animal would enter the confrontation, but the eagle has another way of responding...", he writes. "Instead of wasting its strength trying to get rid of the crow, the eagle chooses another path: it spreads its wings and begins to ascend. It climbs higher and higher, until it reaches those heights where the air becomes thinner and the crow can no longer follow it. Without the need for confrontation, the crow ends up staying behind and falls on its own. There is no struggle, there is no wear and tear, nor distractions. Only one decision: to continue rising. Because that is the true strength of the eagle: knowing when stop looking at what is trying to stop her and focus on reaching higher,” she writes about the second image, all accompanied by her photo superimposed with the eagle. In addition, some crows are seen with the words “liar”, “abuser”, “lie”, “bad treatment”, “manipulation”, “yellow press”.
"Let them talk, let them give their opinion, let them make noise... you keep spreading your wings. In the end, the important thing is not who is trying to stop you, but how far you are able to go," reads another photo. "Not all provocations deserve a reaction, nor do all people deserve your attention. Sometimes, the best response is to move forward without looking back," he adds. And in the last photo, he says: “I have fought so that all abused women who want to be free have to report as I did with my former executioner and abuser Alessandro Lecquio.”
In his message on Tuesday, Obregón apologized to Antonia Dell'Atte for "the demonstrations against her held on April 29, 2021. As the actress and presenter's text explains, which accompanies a photo of both women posing together, she then accused Dell'Atte of "having falsified a complaint she filed for mistreatment in 1991 against her ex-husband, Alessandro Lecquio, because a police report said so." Five years After that episode, Obregón, a few days before the trial in which he was going to sit on the bench for this issue - a trial now confirmed by Dell'Atte with its publication -, justified in the statement that those statements had been made "ignoring firm judicial resolutions of the investigating court and the Court of Madrid that ruled out that Ms. Dell'Atte had falsified any document."
The post in which the statement can still be read, and which has accumulated nearly 25,000 likes and is closed to comments - and has been marked so that it is the first one seen on your profile - is divided into three parts. In the last of them, the presenter admits that those words, which the actress left reflected in another Instagram publication that was later deleted, "have caused damage to the good name and honor" of Dell'Atte and that this is the reason why she publicly apologizes to the former model. “I reiterate that said information and statements were not true and I publish this statement on my Instagram profile for the reparation of said personal and moral damages,” he states in the text of the post.
In those accusations that Obregón now wanted to retract, the actress of Ana and the Seven said: “I have seen with my own eyes the report of the SCIENTIFIC POLICE that concludes that the complaint of mistreatment presented by this lady HAS BEEN FALSIFIED.” Some words, he says now, that he regrets. Although, as the text of his post ends: “It is not enough to repent in silence. Whoever has caused harm must also have the courage to recognize it. I'm so sorry, Antonia. “I am very sorry, Clemente [in reference to the son of Alessandro Lecquio and Antonia Dell'Atte].”
