2002 kidnapping incident On September 22, 2002, Zapata and her half-sister, Ernestina Sodi, were kidnapped outside a theater in the
Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, when Zapata had just finished her performance in
The House of Bernarda Alba. The criminal group known as "Los Tiras" initially demanded a ransom of five million dollars from the family, reportedly taking advantage of their younger sister
Thalía's marriage to music executive
Tommy Mottola. Zapata later stated that the family negotiated the payment. Zapata was released on October 10 of that year, while Sodi was freed later that month, ransom that Thalía paid. In the years that followed, the family became estranged amid a series of disputes. In 2005, Zapata produced the play
Cautivas ("Captives"), which reenacted her kidnapping. The rift deepened in 2006 following the publication of Sodi's memoir
Líbranos del mal, in which she recounted her experience, and suggesting that Zapata complicated the negotiations by revealing to the kidnappers that they were sisters, and insinuating that she may have orchestrated the kidnapping; claims that Zapata has consistently and categorically denied. Neither Thalía nor their mother, Yolanda Miranda, publicly defended Zapata in response to the claim. She has criticized the administrations of
Andrés Manuel López Obrador and
Claudia Sheinbaum, both members of the
Morena party. Zapata has used derogatory language to describe Morena supporters, referring to them as "lackeys", "cowards", and "freeloaders", and claimed that Mexico is "a country of lazy people". In June 2025, she criticized Sheinbaum for traveling on a
commercial flight to the
G7 summit and referred to her using offensive terms, stating that she looked like an "indita" and "classless". Civil organizations filed complaints with the
National Council to Prevent Discrimination, arguing the use of discriminatory and classist terms. == Filmography ==