The wife of the Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman did not attend court for the first time in six weeks of his trial Monday.
Emma Coronel, the Los Angeles-born Mexican beauty queen, has been seen in Brooklyn federal court in recent weeks while her husband stands trial on multiple charges including murder conspiracy, drug trafficking, and money laundering.
But this week the courtroom was baffled at her no-show, the New York Post reported, adding that the man on trial was 'nervously searching the room' for her.
For the first time in six weeks of El Chapo's trial Emma Coronel, 29, did not attend on Monday
She said in a Telemundo interview last week that he needs to 'feel my support' in court
Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman (pictured February 2014) is facing a number of criminal charges, including murder conspiracy, drug trafficking, and money laundering
A source added that although it wasn't clear where she was, Coronel was still in New York when she didn't show up for her spouse.
It was a surprise considering the 29-year-old appeared adamant last week that she appear to be sticking by her man throughout his trial.
'I think it's what any wife would do in my place, be with her husband in difficult times,' she said to Spanish-language network, Telemundo.
'In one way or another so that he feels, and sees me present, and feels my support.'
But she admitted her day-long appearances inside the federal Brooklyn courtroom have been nothing less than agonizing.
'Obviously, there are good days, there are bad ones,' Coronel said. 'There are days that I actually arrive without eating, that my head hurts.'
Coronel has even been at odds with the media while battling mood swings as she attends a trial that could send her husband to prison for the rest of his life.
'In fact, there are days that I have left very, very tired and the journalists outside approach me and make it out to be like I left annoyed,' El Chapo's wife admitted.
'It is very burdensome to go all day sometimes without eating or eating unhealthy, sitting on those [benches] that are uncomfortable and going out and suddenly they put the light or things like that [on you],' she added.
'So it's like I go out with a headache and that's why sometimes they say that she left angry, that she went out sad, no, I'm very positive, I'm very positive that everything will be fine.'
In a rare television interview, Coronel, 29, said she's doing what any wife would do - appear a few feet away from her husband while he stands trial
A social media account in her name gave no indication of her whereabouts on Monday as in her interview last week she made it clear that she does not own the Instagram profile that has surfaced in recent months.
She has been talking to investigators about tracking the source of the account.
The Post reports defense lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman challenged Colombian cocaine-trafficker and witness Jorge Cifuentes as he claimed information the attorney quoted from his own testimony was incorrect.
Judge Brian Cogan reportedly asked for order as Lichtman yelled at the witness who claimed he refused to get El Chapo shipments of ephedrine because it was harmful to young people.
The lawyer is said to have become agitated because he didn't have the same attitude about cocaine.
Cifuentes did raise his hand and say he was 'guilty' of ordering multiple murders however. He said he bribed a gemologist to sign off his emerald mine so he could use it for money laundering.
He admitted 'the most significant Jewish lawyers in California' were hired to fight charges against him but he didn't know who they were.
Despite old associates revealing illicit deals, El Chapo's wife also said in her interview last week that he is very confident with how the case is proceeding.
'In one way or another so that he feels, and sees me present, and feels my support,' Coronel says of her courtroom appearances like the one depicted in the above sketch
El Chapo's wife admits that the presence of the media at her husband's trial has made her uncomfortable
Emma Coronel disputes that she has an Instagram account and has been in contact with investigators
The single mother to couple's seven-year-old twin daughters said: 'I have never seen him calm, really. But as I can see, he is very positive... and very calm.'
Guzman was extradited to the US last year from Mexico. He has pleaded not guilty to drug-trafficking charges, with his lawyers claiming he's being framed by shady cooperators.
Guzman faces life behind bars if convicted of operating a continuing criminal enterprise, murder conspiracy, and other charges.
Coronel first caught El Chapo's eye when she competed in a beauty pageant in 2006. The niece of a former partner of El Chapo's, Ignacio 'Nacho' Coronel, has no idea what her life would have turned out to be had she never fallen in love with him.
Nevertheless, she holds no regrets of the tumultuous life she's lived as the spouse of a man known as one of the world's most ruthless drug dealers.
Coronel said: 'I'm very satisfied. I have also had tough moments but I have always said that God does not put things in your way that you will not overcome. So when God puts big obstacles it is because he knows that you are strong and you can achieve it.'
Coronel says she never saw her husband doing anything illegal while they were together.
Guzman was extradited to the US last year from Mexico. He has pleaded not guilty to drug-trafficking charges, with his lawyers claiming he's being framed by shady cooperators. He is seen during his extradition on January 19, 2017
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