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La Chilindrina Says She Went on a Date With Luis Miguel in the 1980s & We Have Questions

Lead Photo: Singer Luis Miguel performs during the first of four sold-out shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Photo by Ethan Miller / Staff / Getty Images Entertainment
Singer Luis Miguel performs during the first of four sold-out shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Photo by Ethan Miller / Staff / Getty Images Entertainment
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In the 1980s, La Chilindrina – aka María Antonieta de las Nieves – and Luis Miguel went on a date, according to the El Chavo del Ocho actress. On a recent visit to Peruvian TV show El valor de la verdad, de las Nieves, who was hooked up to a lie detector, talked about hanging out with El Sol de Mexico. 

When host Beto Ortiz asked if she left her Acapulco hotel to board Luismi’s yacht, La Chilindrina said she had. After the show confirmed she hadn’t lied about the question, Ortiz said there is photographic proof of the encounter, which shows a very young Luismi. 

When Ortiz asked her which of his songs were popular around that time, she began singing “somos dos, dos enamorados.” “1+1= 2 enamorados” was released in 1982 when Luis Miguel was 11.  If it took place in 1982, LuisMiguel was a pre-teen and La Chilindrina, who is about 20 years older, was in her 30s.

She went on to explain that a young Luismi was flirting with her and said, “Hey nena, do you know who I am?” To which she responded, “No, you know who I am.” She then boarded the yacht and drank Inca Kola, and that the whole date was romantic, and that thanks to the photo that exists, he can’t deny that she was his first love.

And while she described a pretty PG scene, it’s still incredibly weird because La Chilindrina just admitted that she went on a date with a pre-teen boy. Or maybe she is misremembering the year?  Or maybe they just posed for a picture together? Regardless, we have a lot of questions and need clarifications.