The real reason Selena's husband got divorced
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez fans will remember the Texas singer's devoted husband, Chris Pérez, who apparently loved Selena as deeply as she loved him. Pérez first met the singer "Dreaming of You" in 1990, when he joined her band, Selena y Los Dinos, as a guitarist, on Cnn. They eloped in 1992. (Decades later, Pérez shared her marriage certificate on his official Facebook page.) As he reminded Cnn, Selena's father disapproved of their relationship, but eventually accepted Pérez into the family once they were married. . Their marriage lasted three years, ending in 1995, only after Selena was tragically shot and killed by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar.
Understandably, it took Pérez years to absorb the shock and deal with his intense grief after losing his wife, who was only 23 at the time of his untimely death (Pérez himself was only 25 years old). According to The Los Angeles Times, in the late 1990s, Pérez founded a band with friends, including his friend John Garza, who later introduced him to his second wife, Venessa Villanueva. Pérez and Villanueva married in 2001, welcoming two children, Cassie and Noah, into their lives. The couple stayed together for seven years before finally calling it resignation in 2008. But what went wrong?
Did the memory of Selena torment Chris Pérez?
After the death of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, Chris Pérez initially turned to alcohol and drugs to cope before cleaning himself up in late 1996, The San Antonio Stream reported. According to MeAww, those addictions came into play once again during Pérez's marriage to Venessa Villanueva, and it was what ultimately separated them.
Pérez opened up about the dissolution of his marriage to The San Antonio stream in 2013. Divorce is a pain in him, especially when people try to start the drama with you, he said on the way out, apparently to hint at a rocky relationship with Villanueva. "But fortunately there is peace now." However, some fans believe the couple broke up because Perez never got over Selena.
The musician still honors his memory today. In fact, in 2012 he published a memoir about his life with the superstar. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Pérez revealed that writing the book helped him deal with his pain. "It was something I had to do to keep going," he said. “I was dealing with boxes and boxes of luggage that I had suppressed. So I went by, dusted them off, and then wrote the book.
