“Before, no one stopped me. Today I have no strength, I see it every day. At 5 in the morning I’m already awake, then around 2.30pm the downturn and the dizziness begin. A switch went off. I never thought it could happen to me, at 49 years old. The truth is that we don’t know how it will go.” On Sunday afternoon, Costantino Vitagliano spoke for the first time openly about the disease which, in December, forced him to stay in hospital for a month. It is, he explained, a “rare autoimmune disease” which “puts the aorta in danger on a daily basis”. And to date there is no treatment protocol, but “only attempts at treatment” and “the truth is that we don’t know how it will go”. The very famous former tronista, now a model and entrepreneur, father of an 8-year-old girl, told of the day that changed his life. «I had broken a tendon in my finger playing with my daughter Ayla on the sofa, my finger had been in a splint for 6 weeks. I went to my doctor for a check up, I had sternum pain which I still have now. I had an ultrasound. I had and have a stain on my umbilical aorta: everyone became anxious and hospitalized me urgently. They made me understand that it was a dangerous situation.”
Thus begins the painful process of investigations. And Costantino is admitted to tumor surgery. The former tronista relives the memory of the illness that in 2018 led to the loss of his beloved mother, Rosina. «I went into total panic, I was in the tumor surgery department: I got anxious, the doctors didn’t know. I started thinking ‘I’m dying and they don’t want to tell me’. I lost 12 kilos in 10 days. I did 29 days of tests, in the end we came to the conclusion that I don’t have cancer. I’m autoimmune, today I have to stay completely at rest» Toffanin told Silvia, before specifying. “They put a stent in me, I have this mass that puts my aorta in danger every day. I have to take pills since 8 in the morning, I started treatment for an absolutely rare disease. To date, these are attempts at a cure. I take doses of horse cortisone, the only anti-inflammatory that doesn’t make me have pain. We continue with attempts.”
There were many emotional moments in the studio. «It’s a situation that has changed me profoundly. I try to be what I was, I try not to be seen in a certain way by my daughter, who is 8 years old, but she doesn’t always succeed, she confided to the viewers of Verissimo. Her life changed overnight. “In the morning I was in the gym training, in the evening they told me I couldn’t leave the hospital because I was risking my life.” Costantino also talked about the emotional difficulty of living with this diagnosis, the fear of moments of agitation and anxiety that could worsen the situation, because the pressure must be kept under control with weekly tests. His thoughts today are all for his daughter. Like all separated fathers (the little girl was born from the relationship with Elisa Mariani), he says, «I have my set days and I enjoy it in the times I have. She is very sweet and then she is as if she were me, a woman. She has my eyes. I’m very happy to have had her.” Costantino is an orphan of both parents. Today around him there are historical friends, those from the neighborhood where he grew up, but few colleagues from the world of entertainment. Among them Lele Mora. “After all, I have always been a loner.” “And love?” Silvia Toffanin asked him. This is not the time for a story. «Right now I really don’t have the head for a relationship. In a relationship you have to give and receive, I wouldn’t be able to give in this period.” The former tronista reveals that she hasn’t had a relationship for several years: «I haven’t had a stable relationship for a while. After my mother’s death, I distanced myself from everything and wanted to enjoy my daughter.”
2024-01-21 19:34:43
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