María Celeste Arrarás Defends The Series About Selena

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María Celeste Arrarás, who has been the subject of strong criticism from fans and family of Selena, assured that her interest in telling the tragic end of the Queen of Tex-Mex has nothing to do with earning money and noted that everyone”He wanted to take advantage of the singer when he achieved success.

The presenter of Al Rojo Vivo (Telemundo) thus defended herself from the attacks she received from Suzette Quintanilla, sister of the late singer, after the announcement that her book The Secret of Selena was going to become a miniseries.

"The public understands that every time a famous star dies, and even more so when she is assassinated, journalists historically carry out investigations into her death or her life as I did, and that is nothing new," the Puerto Rican journalist told People. in Spanish.

"It has nothing to do with trying to profit from Selena's death," he added. “I donated the proceeds from everything that had to do with the book. When I wrote the book I did not do it for money, I did it because the public had the right to know what was happening around their beloved Selena”.

The same assures about the series that it will be brought to the small screen soon by Disney and Telemundo.

“It is important because the Selena fans, who love her so much and are so eager to know about her and her life, already know that she had a very successful life and they know that Yolanda Saldívar killed her. But they don't know what was going on around Selena's life in the months leading up to her death,”she observed.

Selena at the time of her death was in a whirlwind of situations that she was trying to deal with all at once, and she at 23 was innocently in the process of making changes in her life, both professionally and personally, and It is in this area that Yolanda Saldívar shoots him in the back. It is a story that is told with great respect, with great admiration and with great elegance, always keeping her in mind,”he added.

According to her, the series will explore what the book addresses about what was happening in the singer's life before her murder in 1995.

“She tells of the challenges she was facing and how she was being manipulated by various people who loved her very much and whom she also loved, but unfortunately she was at such a successful moment in her life that everyone wanted to take advantage of their relationship. with Selena”, he pointed out.

He acknowledged that Selena's father, Abraham Quintanilla, opposed having his book published when he released it in 1997, but according to Arrarás, he has had no further conflicts so far with Selena's family.

“I never had a conflict with them. Her father when the book was going to come out - without having read it, without the book even being printed, with the book still on my computer that no one had read yet - and he began to oppose the book, because he opposed it. to all the things that came out about Selena back then. I did not take it personally. I never had a problem with that, he clarified.