‘…Of course, the luxuries don’t make you fall in love, but they do dazzle you. When you get dazzled, you get carried away…’
These were the words of model and a former beauty queen Yovanna Guzman who revealed the inside story of her relationship with boyfriend Wilber Varela during an interview in Bogota. Talking about her relationship with a drug mafia head, Guzman told that she was dazzled by the luxurious lifestyle her boyfriend offered her but then she asked herself the question that ” where is the love and my principles?” Surely, these words bring the famous saying into our minds that all that glitters is not gold. Truth is that often the glitter does trap us and we follow the path, knowingly, which ends up in a disaster.
Yovanna Guzman is one such example. She fell in love with the wealth of a drug trafficker but years later she realized that she was being trapped in golden cage. Yovanna’s boyfriend was one of the drug traffickers of Columbia. Her boyfriend, Wilber Varela, was the head of North Valle Cartel and used to traffic tons of cocaine in America through speedy motor-boats and to Europe through private jets. Wilber, who fall in love with Guzman, wooed her with luxury apartments, sports utility vehicles, and expensive gifts. She was one of his many girlfriends who Wilber used to get sexual pleasure. Guzman states in her interview that she did enjoyed his luxurious presents but as time passed by she realized that he has trapped her in a golden cage. Guzman was not allowed to meet or even talk to other males. Wilber later forbade her to take part in fashion shoots as he was extremely possessive about her. According to Guzman, Wilber always knew who she talked to, and once he became angry at her and asked one of his lieutenants to shot her in leg while she was partying in a bar.
Wilber was later killed by one of his lieutenants who wanted to take over his wealth. And it was then when Yovanna Guzman’s nightmare ended. She remembers the day when she received the news, ‘I didn’t know whether to be happy or sad,’ she said. ‘I felt the golden cage had been flung open, and I could fly again.’
Yovanna Guzman and former lover Wilber Varela
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