Gina Lollobrigida's last years "were a nightmare, hell".
Andrea Piazzolla, former assistant and factotum of Gina Lollobrigida, who died in recent days, at the center of the controversy with the actress's family and on trial in Rome on charges of circumvention of an incapable person, was the protagonist of a long interview on Domenica in .
In Mara Venier's living room - which also hosted Giovanna Ralli, Adriano Aragozzini, the lawyer Antonio Ingroia and the cardiologist who treated 'Lollo' in recent years, Francesco Ruggiero - Piazzolla spoke about his relationship with the actress, the Gina Lollobrigida's difficult relationship with her son, Andrea Milko Skofic, and the controversial story of her marriage to the Spaniard Francisco Javier Rigau.
Lollobrigida, Piazzolla on Sunday in: 'Contrast liquid has blocked the kidneys'
With her son, Piazzolla explained, "the relationship has never been very easy. Milko had this very famous mother, she didn't have her all to himself, and this caused some problems.
On the other hand, Gina was a woman with a very , very strong, she never compromised, she gave her best, she wanted the best. They were never able to take it".
The first meeting with the actress in 2009, since 2012 the increasingly intense attendance, since 2013 "the nightmare began, when we discovered the Spaniard's marriage by proxy".
Milko "never agreed to clarify things with his mother and sided completely with Rigau", from there "an absurd series of lawsuits began".
"The most serious thing - said Piazzolla - and I take responsibility for what I say, is that there is a part of justice that is good, another part that leaks from all sides. I have respect for justice, but I think there has been a lack of respect for Gina. If a person is doing very well, how can one take away a lawyer from him? And impose the partner of the associate of the firm who defended Milko as lawyer,
son Dimitri and Rigau who in turn appoints Rigau's own consultant as consultant?
Gina tried with all her strength to appeal, but it was a sort of fight against windmills.
She asked to change the support manager, but the judge placed a person between Gina and the support manager.
How come when people are really in need, justice takes six months, a year... And instead, when he asked for something, the decree arrived the next day".
Piazzolla also recalled, moving, the last weeks of the actress's life, the fall, the operation on her femur, the heart problems, the hospitalization.
Ingroia, who reiterated several times how Gina Lollobrigida was not "manipulable" at all, showed the document of the private agreement signed in 2006 between the actress and Rigau according to which the marriage between the two "should only be canonical, without civil or patrimonial effects, in total separation of assets. Both undertook and never register the union for civil effects. In case of violation of the clause, the heirs have the possibility of challenging it and asking for damages for 2 million ".
In the long interview, Piazzolla reconstructed Gina Lollobrigida's last days: "I think it was last Tuesday, even if I can confuse the days. She went for a CT scan in the hospital, I accompanied her, and I asked for it without means of contrast. But in the hospital the doctor said 'it must be done with contrast'. My regret is that I didn't impose myself in some way... from what we understand, the contrast blocked her kidneys. in the evening we returned home and he wasn't urinating, I went into alarm and immediately called everyone I could call, but they told me there was nothing more they could do. I didn't accept it, so in agreement with the professor we agreed immediately hospitalized. If I was ready to donate a kidney? I would have given her my years, I would have given her everything, not just a kidney,just to see her."
On the web, meanwhile, there is controversy.
There are those who speak of an "unqualifiable" choice, of an interview "without contradiction" of "pathetic narration".
And who underlines that Lollo "could have been remembered for her great career more than for her private life in the last period that she, in fact, had to remain so, that is, private".
