Gabriel Medina, 28, spent Christmas with his biological father, Cláudio Ferreira, something that hadn’t happened for 20 years. “Viva”, celebrated the surfer on social networks by publishing a sequence of photos of the family event.
Also present were his wife, Yasmin Brunet, as well as his brother, Felipe Medina, and his sister-in-law, Bruna Bordini. They all broke up with the athlete’s mother, Simone Medina, who is currently responsible for the career of his sister, also surfer Sophia Medina.
Claudio and Simone separated when Gabriel was a child. The athlete was raised by her and her stepfather, Charles Saldanha. However, he reconnected with his father after his relationship with his mother turned sour.
To UOL, Claudio said that Simone had her son’s head against him. “He said: ‘Dad, forgive me. I’m sorry I was wrong all these years.’ I often thought badly of him, I thought he didn’t want to see me, but it was Simone doing things from behind,” he said. “Thank God the truth remained. We are living the truth today.”
Gabriel began to fall out with his mother since his marriage to Yasmin Brunet, 33. According to an article in the newspaper Extra, published at the time, the parents would not have approved the flash marriage and would be concerned about the influence of the model on their son’s career. .
“They have always lived for Gabriel’s career. Imposing discipline, giving strength and closely controlling everything,” a source told the newspaper. “Now he’s not a boy anymore and shares his life with his wife.”
The problems with his family began to take public shape in February of this year. Gabriel and Yasmin stopped following his mother and stepfather on social media. Simone and Charles, in turn, also failed to follow the publications of their son and daughter-in-law.
According to Veja magazine, Simone even sent a message to her son offending Yasmin and her mother, Luiza Brunet, who would have “unpublishable terms”. To the publication, the surfer’s mother-in-law replied: “People have nothing to do with their lives and exhibit this disgusting behavior”. “But they are whole and whole,” he said of the couple. “I’m proud of them both.”
On the last 22nd, when Gabriel turned 28, his mother gave him a pat on social media, implying that she would be willing to reconcile with him. “Son, congratulations on your day,” he wrote in the caption of a photo with the two of them together.
“This photo day was very special, we laughed, hugged, shared confidences, I was dizzy from shooting so much”, she said about the day the image was taken. “That’s it, 28 long years of a lot of history, a lot of delivery and a lot of complicity.”
The surfer did not respond to the post, at least publicly.
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