Cinzia Leone is a guest of Silvia Toffani in the television lounge of very true. The actress’s story inevitably focuses on her illness, starting from the aneurysm that struck her in 1991 at the premiere of a film: «I wanted to stay at home because I had a headache. My mother convinced me to go and I am alive for it. If I had stayed at home no one would have noticed.”
INSIGHTS
Rebecca Staffelli to Verissimo: «This is how my boyfriend Alessandro and dad Valerio met». Then the wedding announcement
Cinzia Leone’s story to Verissimo
Cinzia Leone continues with the story: «After the operation in America, my mother explained to me what happened.
From that moment on I only lived to heal from the paralysis. It was a great life experience, almost as if when you return to it life seems almost banal. All proportions are lost, but it was the most interesting thing of my entire life. I found strength in my work, if I don’t do my job I die.”
The disease: aneurysm and stroke
On 26 December 1991, at the end of the first screening of Francesco Nuti’s film “Women with Skirts” at the Barberini cinema in Rome, she fell ill and was hospitalized in very serious conditions. She then gave the diagnosis: aneurysm congenital to the basilar artery. He underwent a delicate surgery in Phoenix, in the United States, given that due to the high risk of the operation no Italian surgeon wanted to take responsibility. Following her surgery, the left side of her body was initially paralysed, but later managed to recover completely.
In 1999 she was then hit by a stroke, but once again manages to get back to his feet. “When half your body is dead, it gets tough. But I never gave up, the circle of the disease is closed, defeated » she told La Repubblica.
© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED