Eleonora Giorgi talks about her journey through illness and family

Eleonora Giorgi gave a long interview to Vanity Fair where he shared his story since his divorce with Rizzoli, his exit from the movies, his addiction, the latest news about his illness and his special relationship with his family (especially with his grandson). The photos show her smiling, “now I’m free,” she explains.

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The interview: “Talking about the disease was liberating”

The interview begins with the history of the disease, about which Eleonora Giorgi herself recently spoke openly to Verissimo. Being able to share her health status with the public was a way to find support and break out of the isolation of her situation.

“Those who discover that they are sick first experience incredible loneliness – explains Giorgi-. Talking about it was liberating for me. It wasn’t “vanity.” I grew up with the audience. I was 19 when my career started. But that’s not it: talking about it was a way to focus even more on the value of the time left. A month, a year, a lifetime: it doesn’t matter. What matters is what I want now: to be with my children, with my family, with my loved ones. I have taken refuge in this cocoon of love. A cocoon that is more alive than what it once was.” And she faces the fear of death in her own way. “For me, the soul is that voice that has been speaking to me since I was a child. I don’t know if there is an after. But I think there was one before.”

The photos show her smiling and with her hair shaved, a change that brought her freedom.

“I’m free now“, he explains, “losing my hair taught me that seeing the positive side is a form of great freedom. There is a time for everything in life – today I finally got to embrace all the love around me.

And then she reveals: “if i surviveI can’t say if I’ll recover, but if things get a little better, I don’t want to go back to my old life. I want to spend all the time I have left like this, with the love I have finally rediscovered. I’m tired of being Giorgi. I’d rather be my grandson’s nanny.”

On the story with Angelo Rizzoli: “I would like to talk to him and ask him: why is the cinema banning me?”

About her career, Eleonora Giorgi admits: “I didn’t want to be an actress. I was interested in the restoration of old paintings. Instead, my father’s partner asked me to take some photos as a model. She was pretty.”

The actress then recalls a carousel of men she met who changed her life: this is what she keeps of them. Of Federico Fellini, he remembers “the smell of lavender he had”, with Carlo Verdone he did his “best work” and the attractive: “Carlo disappointed me because he did not call me back to work with him. But I am Optimistic: Carlo, there is still time, little but what are you waiting for to call me?” Adriano Celentano, on the other hand, “one of the sexiest men I’ve ever met. I fell in love with him.”

And in the story with Angelo Rizzoli he remembers that “on a trip to India, when we were married, an astrologer made his birth chart: he wrote ruin, disease, prison, misfortune. It’s too complicated a story that I don’t want to talk about anymore. But if there is an afterlife, if there is anything after death, well, if I could meet someone again, I would like to talk to him and ask him: why was the world of cinema banning me?

In the life of the actress there was also an addiction to heroin. “I was alone, without parents, just broke and had my first successes. I bought a motorcycle, the legendary Honda 750, from my ex and gave it to Alessandro Momo, the boy I was with. He was seventeen years old. he told me he was twenty years old, he calls me and says: he fell in the Foro Italico and died, my father calls me in the hospital, crazy, I run And then I go home, alone, the porter and I think: they will be my parents. How can a girl endure all this? I threw myself into heroin and then luckily got off it.”

The relationship with his grandson and the love of the family

But how to explain the disease to the grandson?

“I really don’t know. When I play with my grandson he doesn’t even notice that I’m sick. So I don’t tell him. But I asked him that if I die, I don’t want them to tell. him that I’m gone gone I would like to be told that I became an angel.”

The actress has also tried to turn the difficulty into an opportunity to make up for lost time.

“And when do you ever find yourself at the center of your family’s love at the age of 70? I don’t want to go back to the old Giorgi. We’ve been so close this year that it seemed to me that I’ve regained everything that Otherwise, s ‘I would have lost. at night, when I’m alone, it’s harder. I feel like crying because all the memories are flooding me. My children when they were small, my parents, all the pain I felt for being away from the cinema. But then it happens, dawn comes and I know there’s another day to live, another day to love. I just had really tough chemo. But today I’m fine and I’m here with you.”

And he concludes: “If there’s anything this tumor has taught me, it’s that life is a magical thing that shouldn’t be lost. get out of your comfort zone, take risks, move. It never matters how much time you have, but how you choose to live it. Kindness, on the other hand, refers to the ability to be happy with what you have. You don’t need to feel envy” and “try to live the time that is left with kindness. Only then will the remaining time become life. Real life.”