Gisela Valcárcel: Sus confesiones más íntimas en ‘Café con la Chevez’ | Amor, críticas y futuro

Gisela Valcárcel made a highly anticipated return to the podcast scene on February 17, 2026, as the first guest on the latest season of Café con la Chevez. The Peruvian television personality opened up about her life, career, and future plans in an exclusive interview with Trome.

Valcárcel discussed her reflections on aging, the criticism she receives on social media, and her relationships with other figures in Peruvian television, including Magaly Medina. She similarly delved into her past marriages, the possibility of finding love again, and her thoughts on what a future relationship might gaze like.

The conversation also touched on her past friendship with Paty Lorena, critiques leveled against her daughter Ethel Pozo, and a new project with Maju Mantilla. The interview offers a candid look into the life of one of Peru’s most recognizable media figures.

“I don’t grasp if it’s because I’m in Iquitos, I don’t know if it’s because today the language in digital is spectacularly honest, and sometimes even violent,” Valcárcel shared during the podcast. “People express what they want, even their bad temper. In my case, this time away from the screen has done me a lot of good. And yes, I perceive like it, I feel like you see me, I feel like saying what I suppose, but I’ve almost always been like that, when something doesn’t like me, you can tell…”

“Yes, it changes your character, your face changes…” her interviewer responded.

“Totally…,” Valcárcel agreed. “You frown… Of course, when you can frown…”

GISELA ON AGING

“Are you afraid of your wrinkles showing more?” the interviewer asked.

“Am I afraid? Look, aging isn’t something that’s like, ‘Oh, how beautiful I look when I’m old,’ no. In fact, your face changes, some areas fall. I don’t know, I look in the mirror and say, ‘Wait a minute,’ and I start exercising, because we lose collagen. So it’s not something that one says, ‘Oh, how nice,’ but it’s also not something that keeps me up at night. As long as I can help myself with a few things, I will, and when I can’t, well, that’s that…”

“Do you get Botox, things like that?”

“I get it from time to time…”

“Once or twice a year?”

“Once a year. Sometimes I’ve had to go twice for my forehead, for here, but well…”

“You’ve turned 63…”

“Yes, 63…”

“Is that a mystical date for you?”

“It’s beautiful. I was born in 1963, it’s beautiful. I feel remarkably good, I’ve felt good for a while. It seems incredible to me to have lived what I’ve lived, to arrive with the desire and illusion that I have, to lift the weights that I lift, to be able to sustain my illusions, to sustain my dreams. I think everything is fine…”

“Would you repeat absolutely everything up to this point?”

“Well, I don’t know, you learn so much in some things that I don’t know. If I had the opportunity and I had memories, Notice things I wouldn’t repeat, because imagine if I did the same things I did at 20. If I remember in another life the things I did at 20 and they didn’t turn out well, I would prefer to do others and go through other problems, not stop going through them, but if you have a new opportunity, let new problems come, the ones I went through, I went through them…”

GISELA IS OPEN TO LOVE

“And why is it that whenever they talk about love, you seem to get a little defensive? Or it seems to me…”

“Do you feel that?”

“Yes, sometimes you say, ‘No, I’m better off alone…’”

“No, I don’t want to be alone. Not at all, I enjoy it a lot. I told a group of people the other day with whom we meet at 7 in the morning, in these 5 years that we’ve been meeting, you saw me at some point feeling bad, saying, ‘Oh no, what a shame.’ No. I don’t feel bad alone, I feel very good and I think that’s why I feel like I am now, I feel like saying what I think, but I’ve almost always been like that, when something doesn’t like me, you can tell…”

“Yes, it changes your character, your face changes…”

“Totally…”

GISELA AND PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENTS

“But you are a modern woman too, and women today think more coldly, we have our hearts, but also here is the main thing… and separation of assets and those things…”

“But I never got married without separation of assets…”

“Oh, good Gisela, because look at everything that happens now…”

“No, no, no, my divorces have always been the nicest…”

“Of course, I with mine, you with yours, as always…”

“I never got married without dividing assets. Never. I didn’t go to the altar unless there was a separation of assets. That’s for sure. No one got married to me for what I had, nor did I get married to anyone for what they had, no. We were already grown…”

“And what about Roberto?”

“Yes, what about Roberto? Do you feel that they still think he was the great love of your life?”

“No, not at all. But I’ve had other loves too…”

GISELA DOESN’T HOLD GRUDGES AGAINST MAGALY

“When people compare you to Magaly, they say she goes on stage, the other is like this, the other is roasted. You have another stamp, you offer the public another information, is your information more authentic than hers?”

“No, not at all. I don’t make a profile of myself and say I’m going to be like this or like that. It just happens because I put on a polo shirt and tomorrow I put on a sequined dress, I don’t know. It doesn’t happen because I’m trying to inform something. I understand that people also think they must hate each other, look, we’re going to compare them. That’s what’s in people’s minds. I don’t think that lives in her mind or mine, because she is unique and I am unique.”

“Do you hold any resentment or hatred towards her?”

“No, no. Imagine if one goes through life holding a grudge against all the people who talk about you, whether with sense or without sense, well or badly. People couldn’t survive, I don’t know, to their neighbor, because everyone at some point has spoken badly about another person. So imagine, no, no, no…”

“Yes, it’s part of the soul, isn’t it? One heals those things…”

“Yes, but those things also have… Look, I’m going to say something politically incorrect, but if tomorrow the headline is ‘I know how Gisela bathes,’ we’re going to read it or anyone, depending on the headline or how she bathes. People like that and if it amuses them too, but there is something we must know. People don’t stay thinking about what they say about you, I don’t know if it happens to everyone, but people with me are very grateful, people draw their own conclusions, over time they know what they believe, what they don’t believe and sometimes it’s good to laugh at what they say…”

GISELA ON A TRIP TO IQUITOS

“Gise, we are in a magical place, a place that gives a lot of peace, do you really feel the blessing here?”

“Yes, I feel that it is a gift and blessings are gifts. It’s a gift for me, it’s a gift for all of us, it’s extraordinary to be here…”

“When you talk about your faith, some people question how you talk about it, how you express it…”

“Maybe I express myself badly, I don’t know…”

“It’s like one feels it and they think it’s pose, it’s fake, but I think you’ve been carrying it for years…”

“Well, I don’t think faith is first a rather difficult subject to touch, what is part of one’s life. Whoever questions it shouldn’t stop you from saying your truth and I believe in God, I believe in Jesus, I believe in the Holy Spirit that accompanies me now and that doesn’t make me better. I think that’s not the point, that’s not what I’m looking for. I think that if someone speaks badly or well, it doesn’t matter. I don’t think that lives in the mind of her or mine, because she is unique and I am unique.”

“You’ve had years, you’ve had 39 years on television, you’re a woman who has gone through so many things, you’re already hardened with all the criticism…”

“Not really, not that hardened, no. I think you never get hardened, but well…”

“But you have a shell…”

“Something I’ve advanced…”

CRITICISM OF ETHEL

“And when they touch the family, when they touch Ethel too, who sometimes gets some criticism, how do you react?”

“At first I was worried, but then I realized that it doesn’t stop her, it doesn’t depress her. She feels absolutely differently. She says it’s part… One can’t be thinking. Look, to close this idea, it’s not easy to affect her and she takes this as a job and in your job if one judges the doctor, judges the lawyer, sometimes judges your mother, why aren’t they going to judge you? Why are you working on television or why are you a well-known figure? No, there’s no way.”

ETHEL AND MAJU ON PANAMERICANA

“The new formula you’re presenting with Ethel and Majú, I see a duo that can work. That is, from my point of view, there are others who don’t see it that way…”

“It’s good. There are others who see it as too soft, but we’ve never presented duos. What we’ve done is present two of the hosts, there’s still a lot of bone to gnaw, there’s still…”

“And is this already in March or are we still talking about more time?”

“Well, we’ll see. We depend on Panamericana’s programming. We assume it’s in March. The date hasn’t been defined yet, we don’t know, but we started production since the last week of January, since January 22nd we started production…”

“Gise, taking that step back to Panamericana, with Susana as the owner, has provoked everyone in television to get upset and say that the queen of television has returned to reclaim her reign, is the reign still yours?”

“No, I don’t think so. I’ve never put a crown on myself, I’ve never put that on my back. Let someone else take the crown. Those things weigh you down a lot. That’s not very important, I don’t make a program saying or I’m not going to host a program saying now they’re going to put the crown on me. That’s absurd. I make a program wanting people to have fun. I make a program imagining a friend whose name is Claudia, who on Saturdays her husband always brought her pizza and a glass of wine, they sat down and watched the program.”

“I make the program thinking about that woman who one day told me that she had 13 children and couldn’t take them to the movies, because it’s very expensive and watching ‘Bailando por un sueño’ helped her a lot, because her children learned to fight, they learned that one falls, but gets up again. And that’s my text in life, we can fall, things can go well, things can go badly. You learn from everything and you can’t go into battles with fear. If I’m going to get married and I’m afraid, don’t get married. If I’m going to jump into the river and I’m afraid, don’t jump. The thing is to go for it and forget about fear for a while. So I think returning to Panamericana or any other house, in this opportunity I have another luck, another blessing. Returning to Panamericana, and with that I return to my origins, to be here, to be close to the people is like returning to my origins. I don’t know what God’s plan is, but I am very grateful. So let’s see what happens. We intend to please, that the proposal is liked, but that already depends on the people…”

GISELA AND PATY LORENA

“You’ve talked about friends, you made programs for friends, because people want to have fun. What about friends like Paty Lorena, who talk on TikTok about Susana, about you, about Ethel, does that bother you?”

“Maybe they weren’t friends, I don’t know. I think anyone who talks about you, if they talk badly, if they don’t express the right thing, beyond the name you’ve given, beyond anyone, shouldn’t be a very good friend of yours. I don’t know, everyone has their little jabs, because we all jab a little, who says they don’t, goes to their in-law and says, ‘Listen, I haven’t seen her looking very good, what do you think?’ The thing is like that, life is like that, but when you go beyond that, they surely stopped being your friends and when someone stops being your friend, why worry? Maybe their desires are greater.”

“I don’t worry about what you say about me, Carla, I don’t worry about what Stephany says about me, I don’t go through life like that and I say if someone speaks regularly or badly, well, I’ll preserve going and I won’t pass, what can I do.”

“It’s part of life…”

“Yes, and let’s be honest, I’m going to say something politically incorrect, but if tomorrow the headline is ‘I know how Gisela bathes,’ we’re going to read it or anyone, depending on the headline or how she bathes. People like that and if it amuses them too, but there is something we must know. People don’t stay thinking about what they say about you, I don’t know if it happens to everyone, but people with me are very grateful, people draw their own conclusions, over time they know what they believe, what they don’t believe and sometimes it’s good to laugh at what they say…”

GISELA ON A DOCUMENTARY

“Are you going to be a godmother?”

“No, no. I don’t want to be a godmother…”

“They’re looking for a lot of godmothers, aren’t they?”

“Yes, it’s a bit strange… They’re looking for a godmother on the other channel, so I said…”

“Paco Bazán started with you…”

“I love him so much…”

“Paco is very good, isn’t he? And he’s in love…”

“He is in love, isn’t he? That’s good, I think it’s good…”

WOULD GISELA HIRE PACO BAZÁN?

“Would you hire him? Or as a guest, wouldn’t you? To dance…”

“Yes, Paco is great. There are many people one can think of when making a new television project. There are many people, Paco is a great…”