After a first appearance in sequence plan, Iñaki Urdangarín became the protagonist of About Évole this Sunday, February 1st. The former athlete confessed to Jordi Évole about some of the issues that he himself relates in the memoir that will be published in the coming days. As it could not be otherwise, his passage and exit from the Royal House focused the bulk of the interview, in which moments were put on the table such as when the emeritus “asked for his head.”
“Juan Carlos sends an emissary to the United States. Not just any emissary, it had been head of the Royal House“It’s Mr. Fernando Almansa,” recapitulated the laSexta presenter, prompting the former Duke of Palma to recount that moment.
Urdangarín recalled that “there was a very tense and very sad conversation about the position he asks us to take”: “First we came to say that we were not finding out about what was happening there when it was a lie, because we had first-hand information at all times. And then, he comes to request that let’s get divorced right then and there to put another cordon sanitaire to the situation, let Iñaki defend himself alone. I understand that the will was refloat the image of the institution,” he said.
Évole read the passage from the memoirs that refers to this same moment: “Almansa greeted us with arrogance, with an almost offensive arrogance. He said: ‘Are you aware of what is happening?’ Throwing on the table, with contempt, a huge box that sounded like a slap with all the information from press reports. And he didn’t drop the bomb: ‘Iñaki, we think it’s better that you get divorced of Doña Cristina’. And here he puts a phrase from your wife and you say. ‘Cristina explodes and tells him: ‘Are you hearing yourself? He has done nothing wrong and you come to ask for my husband’s head“, he recalled the words of the emeritus’ daughter at that time.
Regarding Juan Carlos I, the communicator alluded to that speech by the emeritus on Christmas Eve with which he publicly pointed out Iñaki Urdangarín. His former son-in-law was going to answer with few words, although there was no room for doubt in the interpretation: “Justice is not the same for everyone“.
The king’s order that made the infanta explode: “Iñaki has done nothing wrong and you have come to ask for his head.” #LoDeUrdangarin pic.twitter.com/zJXtElkKi9
— Lo de Évole (@LoDeEvole) February 1, 2026
Infanta Cristina’s ex-husband also reflected on how “complicated” it was to go from being the “son-in-law of Spain” a “the chorizo from Spain“: “I am the weakest link. Attacking me was much easier than attacking somewhere else“he said, without hesitation.
Évole pointed out that what happened to himself would later end up happening to other members of the Royal House, like the emeritus himself: becoming the “open bar.” “There was a moment when Urdangarin You could say whatever you wanted, nothing happened.“said the presenter. For his part, Urdangarín remembered it with pain: “They can give you any adjective, any negative medal. Yes, there was an open bar. Hurts”.
On the other hand, Urdangarín admitted that lost “his values” after entering the Royal Family: “I was infected with desires and needs that I had never had.. I abandoned myself to the inertia of a system that enveloped me, but never fully accepted me (…) You live in those circumstances in which everything is going well, in which you are a successful person, everything smiles at you. Ambition, trying more, is an aspect that infected me. I made decisions that I didn’t need. It distanced me from the Iñaki of the sport and the one before the sport. “You have resources, you are successful, you live in a wealthy environment and you get infected and say, I want to belong to this and I didn’t need it at all.”
“Are you freaking out?“Jordi Évole asked him. “Maybe yes. Yes. But when you’re there you don’t realize it, but when you fall you do realize. You are in a frenetic rhythm, in an environment that favors it, which I did not know how to manage,” admitted the interviewee.
