- Michael Bublé is being criticized for his behavior toward his wife Luisana Lopilato during a recent Instagram livestream.
- In the video, Lopilato greets the viewers, talking over her husband, before Bublé elbows her in the side. The Argentinian actress then mutters an apology to him before he pulls her back toward him and continues speaking to the camera.
- Fans expressed their concern for Lopilato’s safety after watching the video and began resurfacing old recordings of Bublé’s tense interactions with his wife.
- Lopilato released a statement defended her husband on Instagram on Monday.
- “I want you all to know that I have no doubts about who my husband is and that I would choose him again a thousand times over,” she wrote.
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The couple was reading a children’s book together on Instagram live for parents self-isolating with their kids during the coronavirus pandemic. In the opening moments of the video, the 32-year-old Argentinian actress enthusiastically greets the viewers, speaking over Bublé.
The 44-year-old singer then elbows her in the side, and Lopilato apologizes to him, muttering “perdón” and “sorry,” before he pulls her toward him. Shortly after, he pushes Lopilato away after she tries to fix his hair.
After viewing the Instagram livestream, Lopilato’s fans took to Twitter to voice their concerns that Bublé was mistreating his wife.
As online users called out Bublé for his behavior and urged the actress to leave him, Lopilato publicly defended her husband, with whom she shares three children, in an Instagram statement she shared on Monday. Hola! translated the message from Spanish.
“It’s incredible how some people are!! While we are in the middle of a pandemic, and living our lives under quarantine, angst, fear, loneliness, and uncertainty of all kinds! [I] come out every day with my husband to try to do [Instagram] lives to bring some happiness, entertainment, longing, and we have to put up with, hear and see what people with ill intentions are posting without knowing anything about our family and after all the pain that we have experienced, I want you all to know that I have no doubts about who my husband is and that I would choose him again a thousand times over,” she wrote.
Lopilato continued, “It’s not fair! This person is causing harm and taking advantage of this pandemic where people are suffering, dying and under quarantine, to gain fame and more followers. They are sharing lies and that I will not allow because they are disrespecting my family, so I ask all of you who have trusted me for years to not allow this either! Without anymore to say and doing what I believe is correct when someone comes after my family, and leave the consequences to God! The world needs more now than ever ‘love, faith, values, unity and solidarity’ NOT these kind of people.”
In 2020, domestic violence cases across the US and the globe are on the rise as the coronavirus pandemic forces abusers and their victims to shelter in place together.
Insider has reached out to Bublé and Lopilato’s representatives and had not heard back at the time of this story.
If you, or someone you know, is in danger of domestic abuse, you can reach the US National Domestic Violence Hotline on their website, by phone at 1-800-799-7233 and TTY 1-800-787-3224, or text LOVEIS to 22522.
Anyone affected by abuse and in need of support can contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233). Advocates are available 24/7 and can also be reached via live chat on thehotline.org or by texting “START” to 88788 or “LOVEIS” to 22522.
