The Roman actress spoke about her state of health, remembering what happened way back in 1991 but saying she was ready to give her best to work: what she said
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The actress Cinzia Leone enters the living room for the first time very truethe program broadcast on Channel 5 Saturday 4 May, ready to be interviewed by Silvia Toffanin after the long illness – a congenital aneurysm of the basilar artery – which forced her to abandon the stage for a certain period. But now the smile is back and the actress shows it from the first to the last second of the guest. Let’s see together what the actress said during the most awaited afternoon appointment of the weekend.
Cinzia Leone at Verissimo: illness and recovery
Cinzia Leone, once sitting in the armchair of the Mediaset studio, explains where is he in his life?: “I’m in a phase where I’m worried when I go into TV shows because I get excited and then I tense up and my leg also stiffens, so I limp. I should come dancing!“. The Roman actress is moved after seeing a video dedicated to her and then reassures everyone: “Now it’s better“, he comments with a smile.
The comedian remembers what happened to the before Women with skirtsfilm by Francesco Nuti, during which in 1991 he had a felt ill and fainted: “The aneurysm changed my life. I was at the film premiere, but I wanted to stay at home because I had a headache, it was my mother who convinced me to go. She saved my life: I went there and I’m alive because of this, because if I had stayed at home no one would have noticed. Francesco sent me in his car to the hospital without waiting for the ambulance. There they found this congenital aneurysm of the basilar artery which is the worst there could be. That aneurysm was impossible to operate without some sort of apparent death, the vital flow had to be interrupted to act there. I went to San Camillo in Rome for a long time, but I have few memories of those days. I didn’t have the operation in Italy because there wasn’t the right machine. I went to the United States a month after my illness.
It was my mother who told me what had happened by putting me in front of a mirror. The paralysis was bad, from that moment on I lived only to get well, I wasn’t even interested in getting disability. It took 30 years but I did it. It was, perhaps, the most interesting thing in my life. I found strength in the desire to resume my work, because without it I die. I just wanted to start over. The recovery was slow, who expected it… I will have to do physiotherapy all my life. At 32 I was in a wheelchair, today I don’t know how I am but I’m alive. Pain helps us understand the pain of others, otherwise it is a wasted experience. Many people left me alone, but I don’t want to go back, because it was very difficult to get rid of this anger. Pain seeks anger when it is unbearable: there is a level of anger in the world equal to the unhappiness inside and unable to admit. I don’t have certain feelings, I don’t want to beat anyone up, I’m not suspicious and I’m not afraid of others, I smile. It was difficult to be accepted back at work after what happened, but it was also difficult for them to understand, because illness is an experience of great loneliness. I have no intention of complaining anything to anyonenow there’s me and my desire to start doing this job again“.
With regard to the menthe actress explains: “These 30 years have been a standstill because I felt completely inadequate. Femininity is the most offended part, you are half corpse and half alive. It’s not easy to put all the things together, so then the boldness of youth ends and you have to recompose a new identity, especially a female one, and I’m starting to do that, so I’m happy, but don’t let me delve into it too much because it scares me“.
The death of the father
During his childhood, Cinzia Leone loses her father: “He was 39 and I was 8. My mother was waiting for my brother…. I remember a lot of the time spent with him. It was a great pain that came too soon. This rather jagged life allowed me to be trained when the dark moment arrived“.