By Hassan Sanusi
Antonio Banderas insists Nicole Kimpel was not the ‘motive’ for his split from Melanie Griffith.
The 54-year-old actor met his current girlfriend at last year’s Cannes Film Festival but insists things didn’t get romantic between them until he and the 57-year-old actress separated shortly afterwards.
He told Spain’s Hola! magazine: ‘Nicole was not the motive of my divorce. I met her at the Cannes Festival last year but we both knew where we were. I was still a married man, although things were already heading the way they have now ended up.’
‘Nicole told me, ‘You’ve got to solve your problems first, then we’ll see.’ So there’s no direct connection to my break-up with another woman, it’s not like that.’
‘Once I had the divorce documents signed, we [me and Nicole] started to get to know each other, and then the relationship started.’
