Paulina Rubio
Paulina Rubio sat down with Mario Lopez and opened up about many topics, including the so-called "rivalry" with Thalía. Reuters

This week Paulina Rubio sat down with Mario Lopez for NUVOtv’s “One On One.” The actor and host spoke to La Chica Dorada about a range of topics, including her mother, Mexican actress Susana Dosamantes, and how her stardom influenced her early on in her childhood. Mario and Paulina also discussed the late Jenni Rivera and how Rubio found out about the fatal plane crash that ended with her good friend’s life. They also discussed Paulina’s beginnings in Timbiriche, and how things changed when Thalía was brought on board.

“I remember too, that Thalía was in the group later on, and they tried to make it seem like there was always a rivalry between you too,” Lopez told Paulina, to which she effusively replied, “Always, Always!” When Mario asked what the deal was with that, Rubio said, “When you are in a teen band everything happens. You’re brothers and sisters and you fight, and you make up, you sing together, you travel together, you basically are together all the time.”

“Thalía and I were very very close friends, and then we fight, and then we were back again friends…” continued Rubio. “But being part of a teen group that was so important to Mexico and Latin America, knowing that at that point there was no Spanish music in the radio. For some reason all Latinos wanted to sing all the songs from Madonna, Boy George, but not in Spanish, and it came a whole new era for Latinos.”

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