“Blind Side” star’s wife responds to shocking revelation she was still married to someone else

Key Points

• Quinton Aaron and Margarita DeLeon were under the assumption that her divorce from her estranged husband was finalized when they got married in 2024.

• DeLeon, meanwhile, realized the divorce wasn’t finalized when Aaron was recovering from a stroke.

• “I would have done my due diligence. I would have definitely done a lot more research,” Aaron told Good Morning America.

Quinton Aaron‘s wife Margarita DeLeon is speaking out after Aaron’s revelation about their marriage.

After The Blind Side actor suffered a spinal stroke in January, was in a coma for four days and needed help breathing for a month, he learned that the woman he thought who was his wife, DeLeon, was still married to someone else. Aaron and DeLeon got married in 2024 in Los Angeles after she didn’t realize her divorce from estranged husband Eric Guzman wasn’t finalized.

“That’s what eventually led to, the doctors removing her from around me,” Aaron said in a Good Morning America interview with ABC News’ Steve Osunsami, airing on April 20. Upon waking up from his coma, Aaron’s family informed him about DeLeon’s marital status and noted that it was not legally sound for her to make his medical decisions.

“The entire time we were together, she told me she had been divorced for 10 plus years. She even told the person where we were getting married, ‘Oh, yes, I have all the documents I can email over to you,” Aaron continued, noting that not confirming it for himself was “his biggest mistake.”

When he was sick, Aaron’s attorney found records that indicated that DeLeon was still married to the same man from 1992.

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DeLeon, for her part, told Good Morning America that she had made a mistake not realizing that her divorce hadn’t been finalized and she was still married. This error raised tensions between her and Aaron’s family when they discovered it.

“When I told Quinton back in the hospital bed, and I want to be very honest about this, I feel like this needs to be said and brought out there,” she said, adding that it was “information” that Aaron’s family “pulled up on” her. “I wasn’t aware of it. I said, ‘This is what I found out. It is true.’ “

Guzman, meanwhile, who DeLeon was still married to, filed for divorce in February, and he also thought their divorce was finalized.

Aaron concluded that if he had a chance to do it over, “I would have done my due diligence. I would have definitely done a lot more research.”

Aaron suffered a stroke in January after his legs “suddenly stopped functioning,” and he collapsed, TMZ reported at the time. Dr. Nithin Devireddy, medical director at the Rehabilitation Hospital of Atlanta where Aaron is recovering, said that Aaron is undergoing therapy “every day, three hours a day.”

The actor told Good Morning America that though the doctors think it could take up to a year for him to start walking again, he doesn’t “claim that time frame.”

“I’ll be walking a lot sooner than you think,” he said. “That’s just how I believe. That’s how, you know, between me, my faith, and my relationship with God.”

See Quinton Aaron’s full Good Morning America interview below.

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