As pop culture fans know, Richard Gere and wife Alejandra Silva recently uprooted their lives from the United States to move to Silva’s home country of Spain, where they have been spotted spending time with their young sons and simply enjoying each other’s company. Now, however, Silva is sharing surprising news about the couple’s future plans.
In a new interview with the Daily Mail, Silva, 42, told the outlet that she and her family are “always coming back” to the United States. They intend to live in Spain “for a few years and then come back [to the U.S.],” she told the outlet. “But we’re always coming back.”
Silva even mapped out the family’s future schedule, when they plan to split their time between the U.S. and Spain.
“We’ll come back here in the summer because we have the kids at camp,” she explained. “We just have to balance our lives there and here.”
Silva and Gere, 75, are a blended family of six. The pair, who wed in 2018, share sons Alexander, 6, and James, 5, together, while the Pretty Woman star is also father to 25-year-old son Homer, whom he shares with ex Carey Lowell. Silva, for her part, is also mom to 11-year-old Albert, whom she welcomed with her ex-husband.
Silva’s recent admission about her family’s plans to come back to the U.S. is surprising — given how much Gere has gushed about settling into his wife’s home country and his blunt message about politics in the U.S. right now.
“The best part of being here is seeing my wife happy,” the Mothman Prophecies star said during his speech in February at the 2025 Goya Awards. “The people, the food, the lifestyle— it’s all wonderful.”
Across the Atlantic, however, “We’re in a very dark place in America, where we have a bully, a thug, who’s the President of the United States,” Gere opined of President Donald Trump, before noting: “But it’s not just in the U.S., it’s everywhere. Authoritarianism takes us all over.”
