When Wanda Nara announced last July that her 10-year relationship with footballer Mauro Icardi was over, she may have thought she was closing the book on that chapter of her life.
Six months later, her divorce is still not finalized and her relationship with Galatasaray striker Icardi is more tense than ever. Things couldn’t have turned out much worse for the TV presenter and football agent.
Those who have followed Nara and Icardi’s story over the past decade may not be entirely surprised. Their journey was anything but easy, with the couple having very public fallout before making up multiple times. Why would we expect their divorce to go smoothly?
One problem seems to have been that Icardi didn’t want a divorce in the first place. X-rated sex text messages Icardi sent to Nara after she told him it was over became public earlier this week as part of their divorce proceedings, with the 31-year-old attacker pleading for his estranged wife to take him back.
But Nara was not in the forgiving mood and decided to move on by starting a new relationship with Argentinian rapper L-Gante.
The pair were first seen kissing in a music video in 2022, which infuriated Icardi, and he appears not to have been happier this time.
Wanda Nara (left) announced in July that her relationship with Mauro Icardi (right) was over, but they are now embroiled in a messy divorce battle
Icardi is now dating actress and model China Suarez (pictured) and the pair have moved into Nara’s dream home
Nara is furious after spending Christmas without her children, accusing Suarez of turning her daughters against her
In response, Icardi began his own romance with actress and model China Suarez, with whom he allegedly cheated on Nara while they were still together, and Nara is convinced he is out for revenge after she walked out on him.
In a recent appearance on the Argentinian TV show LAMBNara revealed that Icardi promised to ‘destroy’ her when she filed for divorce, as she claimed he had now bought her dream home – a $4 million (£3.3 million) mansion in Argentina that she was planning to share with Icardi when he retired – for him and Suarez to live in.
“Seeing this woman uploading photos in the house I dreamed of for my daughters breaks my soul,” Nara said.
‘That house is mine because Mauro bought it when we got married. In Argentina there is no property division. That house will be my daughters’, and mine too. This is not a separation, it is an ongoing provocation.”
But Icardi has no intention of sharing the house with Nara, and according to Paparazzi.comhe has already given Suarez permission to furnish the building to his own taste.
As if that wasn’t enough heartbreak for Nara, she also spent Christmas without the two daughters she and Icardi co-parent.
Francesca, 9, and Isabella, 8, spent the holidays with their father and Suarez, who has three children of his own from two previous relationships, and Nara has accused her estranged husband’s new girlfriend of turning her daughters against her.
“Someone who was helping them in a toy store wrote to me and said, ‘I am with these girls because their mother abandoned them,’” Nara revealed.
Nara believes her and Icardi’s life was ‘perfect’ before Suarez (pictured) ruined their relationship
‘That’s a big lie. I have never abandoned my daughters. I did not see them because Mauro had not signed the permission to leave the country with them. He decided to keep the girls so they wouldn’t be at the parties with me.
‘Before China, our lives were perfect. When I asked for a divorce, he swore to me that he would destroy me. Now he is carrying out his threats, using my daughters and allowing this woman to say things that are just as serious as me abandoning them.
“I never thought anyone would lend themselves to that, much less a mother.”
After spending Christmas away from her kids and having Icardi’s new relationship thrown in her face, Nara delivered more bad news last weekend when she confirmed that she and L-Gante had gone their separate ways.
Taking to Instagram, she explained that she had made the difficult decision to focus on her children amid her messy legal battle with Icardi.
In a now-deleted Instagram story of her and L-Gante holding hands, Nara wrote, “Today our paths go our separate ways so we can take care of ourselves and focus on our work and family.
‘My complex and painful legal situation prompted me to make this decision. Today my children need me and I devote my time completely to them.’
Nara was in a relationship with rapper L-Gante (right), but they have now split so she can focus on her children
Nara has vowed ‘not to be silent’ after six months of hell following her decision to divorce Icardi
Nara is now single again, while Icardi seems to be enjoying life with Suarez and his children.
But Nara has insisted she won’t give up her battle to emerge from the other side of her divorce hell with her head held high.
“I will not be silent,” she vowed further LAMB. “This woman has already harmed other families, but she won’t be able to do that again to me. I speak on behalf of all the women whose lives she destroyed.
‘Everything I do is for my daughters, so that they know that I have always chosen them, even when others want to dirty me.’