Laurenti bursts into tears at Verissimo: 'He was like a father to me'

Luca Laurenti was unable to hold back his tears as he remembered Maurizio Costanzo, who died yesterday at the age of 84, this afternoon in video connection with Verissimo on Canale 5. It was a painful moment in the episode that Silvia Toffanin opened with the touching background of ' Se telephoning the song written by Costanzo and sung by Mina.

In the studio Rita Pavone who spoke of their friendship.

"Maurizio I put him in my family setting.

He was like a father to me.

I have lost everyone.

You don't have to get used to the loss of people," said Laurenti, always shoulder to Paolo Bonolis, who made nine editions of 'Buona Domenica' with Costanzo. And, with his voice broken by tears, he apologized: "I'm sorry cry here, in front of everyone.

The most beautiful things, the unspoken words, are a treasure.

The smiles on video are the tears in our hearts.

It is precisely the artist's secret". Laurenti then recalled the rites in the dressing room, the tenderness of Costanzo, his love for animals. "We are all fragments of a large, small conscience.

When someone dies, a part of us dies because we are one" said Laurenti. And finally he recalled a dream. "

I didn't sleep last night and this morning I woke up crying because I dreamed about it.

I asked him to get up, he got dressed and I told him 'when I think of strength I think of you'".