Thalía: “This year, I’ll be a mom”

     Autumn was in full swing in New York one early morning in September 2002 when Thalía Sodi answered a call that would shake her to the core. Her sisters, actress Laura Zapata and writer Ernestina Sodi, had been kidnapped in Mexico City the night before, and her captors now were asking for millions in ransom.

     “I thought someone was pulling my leg,” she recalls. Thalía herself answered the kidnappers’ first call, which led her to a panic attack for which she was sedated. “I sent the guy to hell and hung up, but I knew inside it was true and said to myself: ‘This is happening.’ It was terrible moment for my entire family.”

     Without a doubt, that moment has not only been one of the worse she’s had to live through, but five years later, it still marks a before and after in the singer’s family dynamics. Both Zapata and Ernestina were released, and today, Zapata is more distanced than ever from her sisters and their mother, Yolanda Miranda.

     Thalía, who spoke exclusively with People en Español about the kidnapping and its repercussions in her family, says she is sure that eventually, they will all come together once again.