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altar boy. I have been fortunate, but I
feel the pain of others. With everything
that has happened in my island, so
many 16- and 17-year old kids are not
in school right now; in other words,
they are in the streets, they are vulnera-
ble. And if they want to return home,
they don’t have a home. They are still
in shelters.

Your love for your country has always
been evident. But now it has been proven
more than ever. Yes, but it’s a little weird,
because the day of the hurricane I was in
denial: “It’s going to turn, it won’t get to
us; we are alright….” And suddenly, In between his charity work, this innate philanthropist stars with Édgar Ramírez and Darren
silence. You can’t communicate with Criss in the long-awaited TV series Versace, about the life and death of Gianni Versace.
Ricky plays Antonio D’Amico, Versace’s partner of 15 years. He also shares scenes with the
your family. We were in Las Vegas when beautiful Penélope Cruz, who plays Donatella Versace.
this happened, but my father and my
brothers were in Puerto Rico. Others career, and then the Mexico earthquake of love for you. Let’s talk about your
were with me in Las Vegas. And the only happens at the same time as things are wedding plans. I can tell you that I am
thing I wanted to do was grab the next happening in Puerto Rico, and you want very much in love, more than ever. But
flight and get to Puerto Rico, and hug to split in two. And you want to go help it’s difficult to imagine a wedding not
my father and my brothers, and that Mexico and you want to go help Puerto on a beautiful beach in my beautiful
wasn’t an option. Rico; they looked so weak. But we never island. That’s why we’ll have to wait a
lost the hope that we are going to be bet- while. But it will be a big three-day
How have you changed after all the things ter, that we are going to be an example party, maybe in several cities. Jwan’s
you’ve seen? These tragedies touch you for the region. It fell on us to be a case family is Syrian and they can’t come to
and you remember that you are another study, but we are going to be able to set the United States now. So maybe we’ll
citizen, with the same pains and the same an example for the rest of the region and have a Caribbean wedding and an
concerns and uncertainties. I went three the United States. European wedding. I will say out loud
long days not knowing if my family was that I am in love with my fiancé and my
dead or alive. Mexico was a cradle for my On the other hand, 2017 has been full sons as well. n

All In, Ricky’s show in Las
Vegas, brings together
some of his most success-
ful songs and celebrates
his Puerto Rican essence.

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