TV Personality Michaele Salahi and Journey guitarist Neal Schon says they are exactly where they should be now in each other arm.
The couple spoke to The Daily Beast exclusively on a series of interviews by phone and text, as Schon band continues its national tour.
"It's like a fairy tale. It is, for what it really is," said Schon of a hotel room in Tampa. "I'm very happy, very happy after waiting for 15 years. Now I want to go beyond all the hype that has Tareq there. It is really shameful."
Neal Schoen, 57, played with Santana in the 70's and then to the attention when the National Travel, exploded onto the music scene in the late 70's and 80 early songs as "'Touch' Lovin, Squeez", "" Open Arms "," different ways (Worlds Apart) "and" Any way you want. "And yet ubiquitous anthem" Do not stop believing '. "
Michaele Salahi, of course, was half of the pair accused of contaminated dinner reverse Obama's first state with her husband, Tariq, in November 2009. They were then presented players on Bravo Housewives The real failure of DC
In my book, Cirque du Salahi, Michaele revealed the first 46 years, she suffered from multiple sclerosis for nearly 20 years, and the disease was the determining factor in choosing her husband. She had been together both Neal and Tareq in the late 90s (for the record, it dates from the first Neal), and there came a time, she had to make a life decision.
"I chose Neal Tareq more because I thought life would be less stressful to live in a vineyard in Virginia. Life on the road, rock band ... Well, I thought that I could not keep up." However, when searching for a book last year in private discussions away from her husband, Michael made it clear that Neal was still deep feelings.
So how do finally get together just 10 days after seeing the other between racks in a concert tour in Bristol, Virginia? The couple admits now that they were to communicate by text "for some time" on a device to a friend Michael had slipped so control is not Tareq which had a portfolio with the outside world. (E-mails and Tareq Salahi repeated calls to comment for this story went unanswered.)
"Neal was like, 'Are we going to do this forever?" And I said, 'No, we're not,' "Michael said at the time he realized it was time to take another life decisions." I began to see that he really loved me. I had to start to feel in my soul. "That's when I knew I was leaving her husband.
Neal sent free tickets and backstage passes for the concert Salah coming Labor Day weekend will take place just 20 miles east of his home in Linden, Va. The sociable Tareq always been behind the scenes with a camera video, Michael, Michael and Irina friend. Urged women to surround and kiss Neal, "Ahhh. There you go ... Neal hugs and kisses! Rock on, Journey" Tareq is heard singing in the background. (Provision of Tareq after this video and other materials on the gossip site TMZ, in an effort to humiliate his wife.)
Tareq was no way to know exactly what happened a moment earlier in the locker room Schon. But if he had an idea of the behavior of his wife that night, he chose to put a happy face.
"What happened ... she takes off her wedding ring, OK, just in front of Tareq, take it out," said Neal The Daily Beast, sounds surprised. "And it shall come to my dressing room, where I sit. I have tennis shoes on and she's like, nine feet high above me. "
Neal has a happy tone of voice when he told the story, and I heard giggling in the background, Michaele. He continued: "And he looks at me while he is on stilts, and says:" I love you. It will never change. And when it happened I said, 'Come here! This has been 15 years! "
In telling their story over the phone these not-so-young lovers played as a teenager who had just received the keys to his father's car. They were finally together and nothing else matters.
On the night of the concert, Sept. 4, Neal invited to Michael on the bus tour with him. "I was close enough to do," says Michael. "But then I thought, no, it's not who I am It would be a public humiliation for Tariq." She explained that she had other responsibilities Neal and things to complete in the coming weeks, but she said that night: ". We will be together. I promise. "She went home with her husband that night.
Nine days later, Michael said he realized he could not stay. "I do not want to hurt anyone, but I realized that it hurts." And, according to Michael, "too much control is Tareq." Neal was released for development. "He said," Do not leave home, you can not have money, I took all the money, you do not have a phone, you can not drive'-plus, there are cameras in every room! "(After spending much time searching for Salahi home in mid-2010, I can confirm that contains a sophisticated monitoring system.)
On Tuesday, Tareq left home to go to a family at the Oasis of the vineyard ready for the next issues of bankruptcy auction, which took place last weekend. He did not know that Michael and Neal had been back and forth text messages:
"Michael will not, I do not want to wait any longer," said Schon. Michaele agreed, and told the Daily Beast, "I was going crazy. Because when you want to be with someone so bad, you start going crazy. He sent someone to pick me up. I had the same machine, and I just went. I walked away from everything. "
"I walked away from it all," said Michael.
Michaele Salahi known for two years now after having intimate conversations with her about the status of her marriage, that she was able to get on a plane by itself, do not take the luggage with it must have been a huge success. Tareq had convinced over time that they should always be set in the case of MS symptoms flared and made her weak. According to Michael, he also lived on the death threats they received after the scandal of the White House and warned that it should never be without it. Michaele said she was intimidated to believe she could do nothing alone.
As Lovey Dovey, as they are on the phone, the harsh reality is that both Neal and Michael is complicated and it may become as ugly as they try to struggle free of their past.
Schon refused to speak with his teammates over the past two years, Ava Fabian, a former Playboy centerfold (August 1986), model and actress, who is one of his series titled Confessions erotic soft porn cu. It is not clear if the reports of a marriage of two said, came only two months ago in Paris, was a legally binding transaction. A source close to the band, who attended the ceremony as "one of these humanistic unions. You know, the friendship-type thing held in the park." This source also revealed that Ava left the band weeks before the tour in Pittsburgh, Michaele arrived on the scene. Ava would send me away from the disturbing presence. Another source close to the site of the Playboy said the relationship between Ava and Neal was almost always a "standard argument". (Repeated e-mails and tried to Ava Fabian directly to the comment were unsuccessful.)

For part of Michael, she is very hurt and angry by her husband. Tareq Salahi, from the promoter, did what he does best, when his first report, that his wife had been kidnapped was publicly exposed by the police, attacked. Known for launching legal attacks on his enemies and multimedia, the cash-strapped Tareq show started with TMZ, which often provides sources of payment, the issuance of private streaming videos, photos and documents, including Salahis "prenuptial agreement.
Since last Wednesday, a day has passed without several Salahi revelations that up to five stories a day, with titillating titles like "Tareq Salahi Rockstar movie kiss his wife. Ultimate Humiliation" and "Tareq Salahi, I'm divorced this bitch "To date, the last record TMZ shows a trio of images of Tareq bury the couple's beloved Doberman, Rio, in a grave yard. The title" I lost two dogs within a week. "
And 'divorce, perhaps two of the future the new couple, as Tareq newspapers have already submitted. It promises can not be easily divided into litigation-happy Tareq might want to try to extract a monetary payment to go away. Check also living arrangements after the tour the band Eclipse is completed at the end of October. They will live in a home port in San Francisco, CA Neal, Michaele, or closer to the beloved brothers and mother in Virginia?
And the big question of all: that the two lovers realize that the fairy tale ending after all the fuss dies down?
When the first is located in Neal and Michael after 'kidnapping' relations to the surface, Neal laughed phone. "Hey, you wrote the book, he had to choose between us and has won Tareq. Guess you have to write the book now, because of me!"