He and his ex-wife Amaya Forch, abruptly separated in December 2013 due to the revelation of Gómez-Pablos's sexual and romantic affair with another woman since June 2013, a young Venezuelan woman who had been living in Chile for just a year and a half, Marly Aponte.
My thing wasn't an affair, it was a thing from the heart. I apologized again and again, not to get back together, but for not having acted better, having been more explicit.
