Brazil media reports world surf champ Gabriel Medina and Sports Illustrated model Yasmin Brunet have drawn the curtain on their year-long marriage.
Three days ago, the three-time world champ Gabriel Medina sensationally, though not surprisingly, quit the tour two weeks before the tour’s opening gambit at Pipe.
Medina, who is twenty-eight, made the announcement in a cryptic Instagram post.
“I have emotional issues that I need to deal with. Recognizing and admitting to myself that I’m not well has been a very difficult process and choosing to take time to take care of myself was perhaps the hardest decision I’ve ever made in my entire life. I’ve wondered a lot lately if I should make this public or keep it private, but it’s only fair that all of you who have always rooted for me know the moment I’m facing. Mental health is very important. I need to be 100% mentally to compete again.”
Now, Brazilian media outlet UOL is reporting the breakdown of Medina’s year-long marriage to thirty-three-year-old Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Yasmin Brunet, and that the pair are already living in separate houses.
“The column learned that Medina asked Yasmin to leave the mansion, which she did not.”
It’s been a wild couple of years for Medina who became estranged from his mama Simone and step-daddy Charlie over his marriage to Brunet.
The feud went nuclear a few months ago with Simone’s allegations of a wild sex tape of a real young Brunet from a drunken party in Rio.
“She was really crazy at a party at her condo in Rio. Drunk, in the parking lot, doing this to a guy and then throwing up,” Simone allegedly wrote to her son.
Brunet, in turn, hit Simone with a defamation suit.
And on IG, Brunet wrote to her almost three-million fans,
Out of respect for my fans and Gabriel, I want to express myself about some news that came out this week. One of them says that there is an intimate video of me in possession of a family member of my husband. This information is not valid. There is no such material. And it never existed. However, I need to emphasise that, even if it did, it is regrettable to want to diminish a woman’s sexuality, to be owners of our bodies and desires.
I would have nothing to be ashamed of and no woman would either. I don’t agree with machismo. Just as my life also has no room for homophobia. Another lie created to attack me would be about a supposed homosexual relationship. As if living a love was something that would offend… And that kind of attitude saddens me these days. I value respect for women and for all those who live their loves.
I would have nothing to be ashamed of and no woman would either. I don’t agree with machismo. Just as my life also has no room for homophobia. Another lie created to attack me would be about a supposed homosexual relationship. As if living a love was something that would offend… And that kind of attitude saddens me these days. I value respect for women and for all those who live their loves.
You’ll remember the wild speculation that Gabriel had formed a loving union with soccer superstar Neymar Jnr (“It’s not normal to see two men like this”) which was quickly tempered by the marriage to Brunet.
Ironically, despite everything, Medina had never seemed happier.
Gone were the flashing glances, the disagreeable tone, the tears etc.
He even reunited with his real daddy, Claudinho, and moved him into one of his houses.
Happier days.
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