“I discovered that I had been deceived shortly after our engagement and for several months. The words published Tuesday by Diego El Glaoui fall like a cleaver. A little over a year later His break with Iris Mittenaerein May 2024, the entrepreneur suddenly decided to reveal the reasons in Instagram story, in response to rumors evoking the alleged infidelity of that which was Miss Universe 2016.
As a couple for five years and engaged, Iris Mittenaere and Diego El Glaoui had planned to marry 2023 before postponing their project. “I never wanted the truth to be made public and I would never have thought of having to evoke it here,” writes the founder of the agency we are influence, focused on influencer marketing. I chose silence out of modesty, out of respect for our history, also by pride, but also to protect its image, despite the injustice and the pain that I crossed. »»
“I wanted to save what could be”
After having read the infidelity of his partner, Diego El Glaoui says he chose “to forgive” and have fought for their “promise of eternal commitment”, to “give back a chance to his couple” and “do not expose it”.
He also explains certain sequences of their documentary series “Influence (s)”, broadcast in 2024 on Prime Video, which followed them in their wedding preparations, and more generally in their daily lives. He sometimes appeared to be annoyed and upset: “Some misinterpreted my attitude. »»
“What we didn’t see is that I already knew and that I was fighting with this weight in front of the cameras. I was carrying the pain of betrayal, and the desire, despite everything, to believe it again, ”he wrote. And to continue: “I wanted to forgive, I wanted to repair. I wanted to save what could be. In this series and outside sometimes I was tried, criticized, always harshly, when I simply tried to save my couple despite the unbearable pain. »»
Diego El Glaoui says today that he had managed to “overcome this test” and “have moved on to something else”. Iris Mittenaere, who has not yet reacted to these statements, too. The beauty queen was Overview last Sunday At the final of Roland-Garros, alongside his companion, the rugby player Antoine Dupont. In May, they had already shown themselves very accomplices at the top of the steps of the Cannes Film Festival.
